Connected

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00:00:08 ◼   ► Hello and welcome to Connected, episode 381.

00:00:12 ◼   ► It's made possible this week by our sponsors, Squarespace,

00:00:15 ◼   ► Smile, Capital One, and Memberful.

00:00:18 ◼   ► My name is Stephen Hackett, and I'm joined by Mr. Federico

00:00:21 ◼   ► Faticci.

00:00:22 ◼   ► Hello.

00:00:22 ◼   ► Hi, how are you?

00:00:23 ◼   ► I am good.

00:00:25 ◼   ► How are you?

00:00:26 ◼   ► I am good.

00:00:27 ◼   ► I'm doing very well.

00:00:28 ◼   ► I'm excited for today's show.

00:00:29 ◼   ► Me too! Lots of good stuff today.

00:00:31 ◼   ► We're also joined by our friend Myke Hurley.

00:00:33 ◼   ► This is unacceptable.

00:00:35 ◼   ► What?

00:00:36 ◼   ► This is unacceptable.

00:00:38 ◼   ► This is an odd episode.

00:00:41 ◼   ► And on odd episodes, I'm introduced first.

00:00:44 ◼   ► But is the chairman now? And he can decide to do whatever he wants.

00:00:48 ◼   ► Is this the decision you've decided to make as chairman?

00:00:51 ◼   ► This is the chairman perk.

00:00:53 ◼   ► To reverse the order.

00:00:54 ◼   ► That you are freed from the requirement to remember odd and even?

00:00:57 ◼   ► Is this what you're giving yourself?

00:00:59 ◼   ► Free to introduce people in whatever order you prefer.

00:01:03 ◼   ► What did it is someone had their cursor up at the top and like selected the Federico line.

00:01:09 ◼   ► So at the top of the document we have in Comic Sans two lines.

00:01:13 ◼   ► It says "Even episodes Federico, odd episodes Myke."

00:01:17 ◼   ► And I got it backwards because someone's cursor confused me.

00:01:21 ◼   ► No, that's not true because I put my cursor up there after I realized you put Federico first.

00:01:27 ◼   ► I think it was as I was saying his name maybe.

00:01:29 ◼   ► Dendro Kostka. Because you know what happened? I thought to myself,

00:01:32 ◼   ► this feels like, I thought immediately, like, it feels like Federico's always introduced first,

00:01:37 ◼   ► and then so I went and checked the top of the document, and then was horrified with what I found.

00:01:42 ◼   ► Travesty, backstabbing, all that kind of stuff.

00:01:46 ◼   ► That really just sounds like some sort of, um, maybe we should talk to somebody about that.

00:01:50 ◼   ► Like you always feel like you're, you're in second, playing second place to Federico.

00:01:54 ◼   ► I mean a lot of it's still that way.

00:01:55 ◼   ► Well, that's the whole thing. Well, I have this whole thing. I'm sure I've told you this before.

00:01:59 ◼   ► I feel like I shouldn't say this in public, but I'm going to say it anyway.

00:02:02 ◼   ► I have this thing where, like, I think everyone's taller than me.

00:02:07 ◼   ► Yeah. Oh, really?

00:02:07 ◼   ► So, like, people that I really respect or, like, people who I think are super creative or whatever,

00:02:13 ◼   ► I always think, like, both of you, I think you're taller than me, but I think I'm taller than both

00:02:17 ◼   ► of you or, like, I'm the same height as Federico. But I have this thing of, like, I always,

00:02:23 ◼   ► in my memory, I'm looking up at people.

00:02:25 ◼   ► And that's not good, is it?

00:02:26 ◼   ► That's like an inferiority complex.

00:02:28 ◼   ► Yeah, you need to talk to somebody about that.

00:02:29 ◼   ► I think it's worse when you actually can't say inferiority on the first try.

00:02:33 ◼   ► That's not good either.

00:02:34 ◼   ► You gotta work on that, buddy.

00:02:36 ◼   ► What's your height in centimeters?

00:02:39 ◼   ► Uh, hang on.

00:02:42 ◼   ► 180 something?

00:02:45 ◼   ► I think we're the same height.

00:02:46 ◼   ► Ask Siri.

00:02:48 ◼   ► What is six feet one inches in centimeters?

00:02:52 ◼   ► Man, it's just taking so long. 185.

00:02:55 ◼   ► You're 185? I'm 183.

00:02:59 ◼   ► I mean, I might be 183, right? Like, centimeter is way more precise than feet and inches.

00:03:05 ◼   ► We're about the same height. Like, I know that to be true.

00:03:08 ◼   ► Yeah, and you're both like an inch taller than me, because I'm six feet.

00:03:12 ◼   ► But the weird part of it is I am as tall or taller than most of my friends.

00:03:17 ◼   ► But I always think I'm smaller.

00:03:20 ◼   ► Do you think, Myke, that this height complex is because you took the expression "look up to people too literally"?

00:03:28 ◼   ► [laughter]

00:03:31 ◼   ► I mean, I think this is the problem, right?

00:03:35 ◼   ► I think that that is exactly it, is I am looking up to people too much.

00:03:41 ◼   ► You can do so, you know?

00:03:44 ◼   ► Not literally, I mean...

00:03:46 ◼   ► Well, this I mean it doesn't happen literally except in my brain. Anyway, we were talking about

00:03:51 ◼   ► Who is the tallest like in our group? I mean Jeff Veen is but he quit his podcast

00:03:57 ◼   ► So he don't count anymore. Jeff is a hundred and seventy-five feet tall. So like he's a tight Jeff Veen is very tall

00:04:02 ◼   ► Syracuse is tall

00:04:04 ◼   ► Yes, I bet Syracuse is probably the tallest. I mean, I can't tell you genuinely if John is taller than me

00:04:11 ◼   ► I don't know. I mean cuz I assume everybody is something John's like six two or six three

00:04:15 ◼   ► Okay.

00:04:16 ◼   ► He's a tall man.

00:04:18 ◼   ► But other than that, Jeff Veen was the tallest.

00:04:20 ◼   ► I think Myke and I are the same height and I don't think Syracuse is tall like us.

00:04:26 ◼   ► I don't think so.

00:04:27 ◼   ► Federico thinks everyone's smaller than him.

00:04:30 ◼   ► Yeah, I also gotta look into that, right?

00:04:33 ◼   ► I mean, I have some pictures here and like, John is towering over you,

00:04:40 ◼   ► but I don't know if you're both standing straight, right? Like, that's the problem.

00:04:44 ◼   ► how can I tell you're like kind of like hugging Merlin a bit in this picture

00:04:47 ◼   ► and also don't like old people get shorter anyway

00:04:50 ◼   ► I think Syracuse is about the same height as us honestly looking at some some photos of John

00:04:56 ◼   ► Syracuse that I have in my photos library it's kind of kind of a toss-up I think

00:05:02 ◼   ► I have a video here which I just found which is a fun moment for me

00:05:05 ◼   ► which is the first time that John and Federico met and Federico pronounced Syracuse

00:05:12 ◼   ► The way we say in Italy, it's "Ciracusa."

00:05:19 ◼   ► Is that right?

00:05:20 ◼   ► It's right for a giant.

00:05:26 ◼   ► We've been talking about what perks the annual chairman could enjoy.

00:05:31 ◼   ► Myke, you think that maybe I should just introduce Federico first every time.

00:05:35 ◼   ► That feels more like a perk for Federico.

00:05:36 ◼   ► No, I think that's what you've clearly chosen.

00:05:37 ◼   ► That's not what I'm choosing.

00:05:38 ◼   ► That just feels like what you've chosen because that was what you did.

00:05:41 ◼   ► Look, I'm just happy when I get the episode number right the first time because that definitely

00:05:46 ◼   ► doesn't always happen.

00:05:48 ◼   ► But Michael on Twitter suggested that we change the tagline of the show art to say "Technology

00:05:55 ◼   ► Without Borders from Steven and Friends" since I'm the annual chairman this year.

00:06:00 ◼   ► That feels pretty good.

00:06:01 ◼   ► I mean, I don't like this, but the point is you get to do, in theory, whatever you want.

00:06:07 ◼   ► But as I was completely shot down in the last episode for this,

00:06:11 ◼   ► we still need to set the rules, right?

00:06:16 ◼   ► The U3 wouldn't allow for my idea, which was just...

00:06:19 ◼   ► U3?

00:06:20 ◼   ► U2.

00:06:21 ◼   ► So not only are we tarvin' you, we outnumber you.

00:06:24 ◼   ► Shut up!

00:06:25 ◼   ► You're bullying now. Cyberbullying.

00:06:27 ◼   ► Myke, do you think these tall people are in the room with us right now?

00:06:32 ◼   ► Do you see Syracuse right now?

00:06:34 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:06:36 ◼   ► - I don't think I would want that.

00:06:41 ◼   ► I love Jon, but I feel like if he was in here,

00:06:43 ◼   ► in my studio, he would have so many things to complain about.

00:06:46 ◼   ► I don't think I could handle that.

00:06:49 ◼   ► You wouldn't accept my just the annual chairman

00:06:52 ◼   ► gets to make the rule.

00:06:53 ◼   ► So you can say whatever you want,

00:06:56 ◼   ► but there has to be like checks and balances put in place

00:06:58 ◼   ► based on what you two required.

00:07:00 ◼   ► So you can propose this if you like,

00:07:03 ◼   ► but my belief is you had to get some kind of vote

00:07:05 ◼   ► or something you wanted done.

00:07:07 ◼   ► I don't remember that.

00:07:08 ◼   ► - Well, we'll see.

00:07:08 ◼   ► I haven't heard the show speak to me yet, you know?

00:07:13 ◼   ► - What does that mean?

00:07:14 ◼   ► - You know, sometimes you just know what the answer is,

00:07:16 ◼   ► right, and I haven't had that.

00:07:18 ◼   ► The spirit of "Connected" has not visited me

00:07:20 ◼   ► in the night yet.

00:07:21 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's the Google document that speaks to you.

00:07:23 ◼   ► - The spirit of the Google document?

00:07:24 ◼   ► - The spirit of "Connected" lives in the Google document.

00:07:27 ◼   ► I think so.

00:07:28 ◼   ► I think the spirit of "Connected" lives

00:07:30 ◼   ► in the Google document.

00:07:31 ◼   ► That is why we cannot switch from Google Docs ever for this show.

00:07:36 ◼   ► It's just a ghost that appears in the middle of the night and asks you for your

00:07:39 ◼   ► password. That's the spirit of the Google document.

00:07:43 ◼   ► It whispers, sign into the correct account, please.

00:07:46 ◼   ► You know who is tall, by the way? John Gruber is tall.

00:07:51 ◼   ► Yes. Okay. John Gruber is very tall. Yes.

00:07:55 ◼   ► John Gruber is taller than John Siracusa. It's the thottest John of all the Johncys.

00:07:59 ◼   ► Well, how tall is the one tall?

00:08:01 ◼   ► I was gonna say one tall John, jeez.

00:08:04 ◼   ► What is wrong with me?

00:08:05 ◼   ► One true John.

00:08:06 ◼   ► Yeah, but I mean, I feel like a lot of our friends

00:08:09 ◼   ► are like a little bit taller than me.

00:08:11 ◼   ► Like I think Gray and I are about the same height,

00:08:14 ◼   ► but Casey's a little bit taller.

00:08:15 ◼   ► Casey's hair is also tall.

00:08:17 ◼   ► That's true.

00:08:18 ◼   ► That gives him about seven inches.

00:08:19 ◼   ► It's a lot of hair product there.

00:08:21 ◼   ► Lots of weird little bits of follow-up today.

00:08:26 ◼   ► Okay.

00:08:26 ◼   ► I think this is the entire segment.

00:08:28 ◼   ► Yes.

00:08:28 ◼   ► The segment name where I talk about bathtubs. We had quite... Is that what you're

00:08:35 ◼   ► wanting to bring in as chairman? We have bathtub segment. Bathtub segment. Yes. We had

00:08:42 ◼   ► several good... I'm fine with that. Several good suggestions. Tumas suggested tub grade, which is

00:08:51 ◼   ► perfect in every way. I've had a thought that I would like to bring to the group.

00:08:59 ◼   ► Okay. We all have like zoom recorders right? Yeah. Yes. Okay. So like member puck

00:09:10 ◼   ► three of us in the bath not together but kind of together. You realize we are

00:09:17 ◼   ► approaching only fans territory. Yeah people pay for that kind of stuff. I

00:09:21 ◼   ► I mean sure, but it's I guess not what I expected my career would become.

00:09:25 ◼   ► This is the thing, would people want to pay to hear a show of us in our own individual

00:09:31 ◼   ► bathtubs?

00:09:35 ◼   ► How do you know that I'm not in my bathtub right now?

00:09:38 ◼   ► The sound, I feel like I would hear it.

00:09:40 ◼   ► We would hear the water.

00:09:41 ◼   ► And also if people check out Connected Pro, get connectedpro.co, we were sharing images

00:09:47 ◼   ► with each other, or YouTube mostly, were sharing images with each other and then sending me

00:09:51 ◼   ► screenshots of them.

00:09:53 ◼   ► And you didn't look like you were in the bathtub.

00:09:56 ◼   ► You don't know that I didn't build a bathtub into the slab of pod cabin.

00:10:00 ◼   ► That is a very good point, and I could imagine you doing that because you are such a bathtub

00:10:04 ◼   ► freak.

00:10:05 ◼   ► Can you imagine that it's like there's a button on the wall and the floor opens and there's

00:10:08 ◼   ► a bathtub just like ever present?

00:10:10 ◼   ► You've got a couple more kickstarts to go before that one.

00:10:13 ◼   ► That's true, yeah.

00:10:14 ◼   ► Please buy my calendar this summer.

00:10:16 ◼   ► Gotta make some more cat endorsement.

00:10:18 ◼   ► You are the James Bond villain equivalent of a bathtub, right?

00:10:23 ◼   ► Where it's like you have like a lair and you press a button

00:10:26 ◼   ► and then like the bathtub appears

00:10:27 ◼   ► from underneath the ground.

00:10:29 ◼   ► I think this is a good direction for the show, honestly.

00:10:31 ◼   ► To upgrade.

00:10:32 ◼   ► We had a lot of feedback on the photos widget conversation

00:10:36 ◼   ► that we had last time.

00:10:37 ◼   ► There seems like there's a bug right now

00:10:39 ◼   ► that if you delete a memory, it will just come back.

00:10:43 ◼   ► So I tried this, actually the day after we got this

00:10:46 ◼   ► this note, there was a memory that I didn't,

00:10:49 ◼   ► it's not that I didn't want it,

00:10:49 ◼   ► I just didn't care about it.

00:10:50 ◼   ► I was like, oh, well maybe I'll try this.

00:10:53 ◼   ► And so I deleted the memory.

00:10:55 ◼   ► And not only has it come back in the photo widget,

00:10:57 ◼   ► it is like stuck in the photo widget.

00:11:00 ◼   ► I feel like it's been there six out of 10 times

00:11:03 ◼   ► I pick up my phone since the day I deleted it.

00:11:05 ◼   ► So it seems to be a bug in iOS 15,

00:11:08 ◼   ► where if you delete a memory, not only does it not die,

00:11:11 ◼   ► it comes back stronger.

00:11:12 ◼   ► So be warned.

00:11:15 ◼   ► like Hydra images.

00:11:16 ◼   ► The thing is as well,

00:11:20 ◼   ► I don't know if I recall this particular thing happening,

00:11:22 ◼   ► but I believe it does.

00:11:23 ◼   ► But part of the issue is you delete a memory,

00:11:26 ◼   ► but those images just come back in a new memory,

00:11:28 ◼   ► which is titled a different thing, right?

00:11:30 ◼   ► - It's even named the same thing?

00:11:32 ◼   ► Like it is this- - No, I'm sure

00:11:33 ◼   ► that is happening, like I believe it.

00:11:34 ◼   ► But my point is like, even if it doesn't,

00:11:36 ◼   ► it's like the system isn't learning

00:11:38 ◼   ► and it's just still showing you those images,

00:11:40 ◼   ► because you can't say,

00:11:42 ◼   ► why do I want to delete this memory, right?

00:11:45 ◼   ► As like, you know, I want to delete this memory

00:11:46 ◼   ► 'cause I don't want pictures of these people

00:11:48 ◼   ► or of this time period or of this location,

00:11:50 ◼   ► but you can't really do that effectively.

00:11:54 ◼   ► - We also got some feedback that if someone is set up

00:11:59 ◼   ► in like the faces feature, you can then tell

00:12:03 ◼   ► that photos don't feature this person as often.

00:12:08 ◼   ► And we touched on this,

00:12:09 ◼   ► but I kind of wanted to like clarify it a little bit.

00:12:11 ◼   ► So this is an example, like you don't want memories

00:12:15 ◼   ► or widget stuff of maybe your ex.

00:12:18 ◼   ► Well, you can't just go in, like we had suggested,

00:12:21 ◼   ► go into photos and just go through and find them all

00:12:24 ◼   ► and tell photos, hey, these photos, don't put them in

00:12:27 ◼   ► memories, don't put them in the widget.

00:12:29 ◼   ► Instead, you have to have your ex hanging around

00:12:31 ◼   ► as a face record in photos, which you probably don't want.

00:12:36 ◼   ► And you can't actually tell it never to feature them,

00:12:40 ◼   ► just to feature them less.

00:12:42 ◼   ► It's just like-- - It's not great.

00:12:45 ◼   ► - No, it's like there's so many obvious loopholes in this.

00:12:48 ◼   ► They really need to revisit it.

00:12:50 ◼   ► They really do.

00:12:51 ◼   ► - I wonder if any of these limitations

00:12:54 ◼   ► are brought on by like the on-device learning

00:12:57 ◼   ► as opposed to a cloud-based learning system.

00:13:00 ◼   ► Where like, if all of the rules are just being set

00:13:04 ◼   ► on-device with on-device processing,

00:13:06 ◼   ► you maybe can't have a set of metadata

00:13:09 ◼   ► which is synced between the devices as clearly, right?

00:13:12 ◼   ► Federico, is it still doing that,

00:13:14 ◼   ► that it's all kind of localized to devices

00:13:17 ◼   ► and then some stuff is shared?

00:13:19 ◼   ► It's gotten more complicated over time, I think,

00:13:21 ◼   ► to understand. - I think so.

00:13:22 ◼   ► Yes, I think so.

00:13:25 ◼   ► They're still doing that big sort of offline index

00:13:30 ◼   ► of all photos content that is downloaded for sure

00:13:35 ◼   ► when you set up a device.

00:13:38 ◼   ► I also think that periodically, and there was an article or something about this, or

00:13:42 ◼   ► a white paper maybe, like the frequency that Apple uses to update this sort of on-device

00:13:51 ◼   ► index of photo contents.

00:13:55 ◼   ► Someone will find it.

00:13:56 ◼   ► There was a schedule, I think, that basically Apple is able to push updates to your device,

00:14:01 ◼   ► but then your device still does all the actual indexing offline on-device.

00:14:07 ◼   ► of a strange system which I don't really understand myself.

00:14:11 ◼   ► Real time follow up, a few people have posted in Discord that if you select "feature this

00:14:16 ◼   ► person less" you can say "never feature this person" but it's not as simple as that because

00:14:22 ◼   ► then you do still need to keep their faces in the photos record, right? And it's just

00:14:30 ◼   ► not enough. It's not enough and it's not flexible enough. Because then if you remove that person

00:14:34 ◼   ► from the faces record, then they're going to come back again.

00:14:38 ◼   ► What a mess. You could just view faces in photos as like a group of people you never

00:14:43 ◼   ► want to see, except when you look at faces. We have some really big news. Federico, I

00:14:50 ◼   ► need your help.

00:14:52 ◼   ► Well, I think maybe first we need to start from the story, from the sort of email we

00:14:58 ◼   ► got and how we've been keeping all of this information as a surprise from Myke too.

00:15:05 ◼   ► Yeah, I don't know anything.

00:15:07 ◼   ► Yeah, Myke doesn't know anything.

00:15:10 ◼   ► So why don't you go back to last week,

00:15:12 ◼   ► Steven, and offer some context on what happened after the show.

00:15:16 ◼   ► So in last week's show, we shared that I mailed Federico a bunch of stuff via UPS,

00:15:22 ◼   ► and it has been sitting in a warehouse for a month. And I said, look, if anyone out there

00:15:26 ◼   ► there, listen is connected. If you can help us with this, if you can point us in the

00:15:29 ◼   ► right direction, please reach out. We got an email from a listener who is a pilot

00:15:36 ◼   ► for UPS in Europe. No way! Pilot is the best part! I know. Yes. And apparently this person has

00:15:48 ◼   ► access to to basically inquire on any tracking number and so I said...

00:15:56 ◼   ► Yeah, they're a pilot, of course they can, do everything they want, right?

00:15:59 ◼   ► Yeah, they can just walk in there and get it. They hand-delivered it to Federico.

00:16:03 ◼   ► So we sent them the tracking number, said okay, we submitted an internal inquiry, and it made its way up to a...

00:16:12 ◼   ► I don't want to give exact details because I wasn't given permission to give details, but a high up person

00:16:18 ◼   ► a person with a very impressive title

00:16:21 ◼   ► inside of UPS's Europe operations.

00:16:25 ◼   ► They spoke to the person who is like in charge of UPS

00:16:28 ◼   ► in Rome, they found, they got to the bottom of it

00:16:32 ◼   ► and within one and a half days of this email,

00:16:37 ◼   ► Federico has the box.

00:16:38 ◼   ► - You should not be allowed the level of power

00:16:42 ◼   ► that you have.

00:16:43 ◼   ► Like this is not good to have this.

00:16:45 ◼   ► - You gotta put into the world what you want out of it

00:16:47 ◼   ► And I wanted Federico to have his box.

00:16:48 ◼   ► I have the box.

00:16:51 ◼   ► This is the noise that he made.

00:16:53 ◼   ► The stuff inside.

00:16:56 ◼   ► So first of all, I guess I should say that...

00:16:58 ◼   ► Do we have any idea why?

00:17:00 ◼   ► Did they give any idea why it was stuck?

00:17:03 ◼   ► Oh, there was an invoicing problem in the system.

00:17:06 ◼   ► Yeah, something silly.

00:17:08 ◼   ► Steven filled out the paperwork wrong?

00:17:10 ◼   ► No.

00:17:10 ◼   ► Is that what we're coming back to?

00:17:11 ◼   ► That Steven incorrectly put something?

00:17:13 ◼   ► So I want to offer some context here.

00:17:16 ◼   ► first of all, I want to say that Stephen Hackett

00:17:18 ◼   ► is kind of cheap when it comes to boxes.

00:17:20 ◼   ► This is a reused Amazon Prime box.

00:17:23 ◼   ► - It is.

00:17:24 ◼   ► It's what I had handy.

00:17:25 ◼   ► - It's an Amazon Prime box.

00:17:27 ◼   ► It's not personalized at all for me.

00:17:30 ◼   ► And there's a piece of tape.

00:17:32 ◼   ► There's a piece of tape that says, "Wow, now,"

00:17:36 ◼   ► and then it's cut off.

00:17:38 ◼   ► I guess it was some sort of message.

00:17:40 ◼   ► It says, "Wow, now."

00:17:42 ◼   ► - Yeah, some sort of Amazon advertises on their tape,

00:17:44 ◼   ► which is terrible.

00:17:46 ◼   ► - Anyway, we are opening the box right now.

00:17:50 ◼   ► - I've always kind of liked the advertising on the tape.

00:17:52 ◼   ► So you gotta put something on there.

00:17:54 ◼   ► - I hope I don't cut myself.

00:17:56 ◼   ► Okay.

00:17:57 ◼   ► - It's up to you now.

00:17:58 ◼   ► It's out of my hands.

00:18:00 ◼   ► - Everything smashed to pieces.

00:18:01 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:18:02 ◼   ► - It's in the box.

00:18:03 ◼   ► - Hold on, hold on.

00:18:04 ◼   ► - It's just destroyed.

00:18:05 ◼   ► - Okay, I'm opening the box.

00:18:07 ◼   ► - If we know anyone in the USPS,

00:18:09 ◼   ► I have a parcel that's lost.

00:18:10 ◼   ► (laughs)

00:18:11 ◼   ► If you know.

00:18:12 ◼   ► - Oh, this smells like Steven.

00:18:14 ◼   ► It does smell like Steven in here.

00:18:16 ◼   ► Oh, that's good. I'm jealous of that.

00:18:17 ◼   ► Very good.

00:18:19 ◼   ► There's a...

00:18:20 ◼   ► Oh, wow. Okay, so first object.

00:18:23 ◼   ► There's a calendar in here.

00:18:29 ◼   ► Excellent.

00:18:31 ◼   ► Is it a good calendar?

00:18:33 ◼   ► Let's see.

00:18:33 ◼   ► I'm gonna make a giant mess of everything.

00:18:36 ◼   ► It sounds like you're going to.

00:18:38 ◼   ► Yes.

00:18:39 ◼   ► How do I open this calendar, Steven?

00:18:41 ◼   ► Oh, okay.

00:18:42 ◼   ► There's a little tab.

00:18:44 ◼   ► Mm-hmm. Pulls right open.

00:18:46 ◼   ► Oh, nice paper smell. Okay.

00:18:49 ◼   ► The calendars do smell good, don't they?

00:18:51 ◼   ► The Apple hardware calendar for 2022.

00:18:55 ◼   ► Oh, this is so nice, man.

00:18:57 ◼   ► Thanks.

00:18:58 ◼   ► Oh, look at that font. Wow. Nice.

00:19:00 ◼   ► Nice, nice. Okay.

00:19:03 ◼   ► There's a dog cow.

00:19:05 ◼   ► Federico, you should be an unboxer.

00:19:07 ◼   ► Wow, this iPod photo is incredible. The one with the iPod Nanos in all colors.

00:19:12 ◼   ► That took a long time. That is so good. I love it and it sm-

00:19:15 ◼   ► Smells so good, man. I love it. Okay. So this is the calendar. It says thank you at the end. Oh nice touch

00:19:22 ◼   ► This project has been an unbelievable thrill and I have been blown away by your support. Oh, that's nice

00:19:29 ◼   ► Okay, so that's the calendar

00:19:31 ◼   ► What else is in this box?

00:19:35 ◼   ► Only you can tell us. Yeah. Okay. Let's see

00:19:38 ◼   ► There's a

00:19:42 ◼   ► Something with some koala themed gift wrapping paper.

00:19:50 ◼   ► I'm gonna open this.

00:19:52 ◼   ► What?

00:19:53 ◼   ► I am opening it.

00:19:55 ◼   ► Oh my god, it's the little...

00:20:01 ◼   ► Oh my god, it's the...

00:20:04 ◼   ► What's the name of the little...

00:20:06 ◼   ► Ricky.

00:20:07 ◼   ► It's Ricky.

00:20:08 ◼   ► Is it Ricky?

00:20:09 ◼   ► It's from Ellen, right?

00:20:10 ◼   ► Yes.

00:20:10 ◼   ► There are stuffed ones?

00:20:11 ◼   ► Yes.

00:20:12 ◼   ► With the stuffed one, yes, with the little crown.

00:20:16 ◼   ► Oh my God.

00:20:17 ◼   ► Yours has a crown?

00:20:18 ◼   ► Mine has a crown.

00:20:20 ◼   ► Oh!

00:20:21 ◼   ► It's incredible.

00:20:23 ◼   ► I'm gonna take a picture right now.

00:20:26 ◼   ► Oh my God.

00:20:26 ◼   ► So Steven, do you have just,

00:20:28 ◼   ► you just have plain OG, right?

00:20:30 ◼   ► 'Cause I have medals.

00:20:32 ◼   ► Mine was plain, but now it has,

00:20:36 ◼   ► when I get near it has some sort of energy field of winning.

00:20:39 ◼   ► It's hard to really describe.

00:20:40 ◼   ► There's something intangible about it.

00:20:42 ◼   ► Oh, okay, there we go. I wonder where this is going.

00:20:44 ◼   ► Mine has a crown. Mine has a crown.

00:20:47 ◼   ► It's incredible. It looks fantastic.

00:20:50 ◼   ► And it feels so good to touch.

00:20:51 ◼   ► It's great, right?

00:20:52 ◼   ► Mine just sits here right on my desk in front of me all the time.

00:20:55 ◼   ► Oh my God. And it smells like my grandma.

00:20:58 ◼   ► Oh, this is weird.

00:21:00 ◼   ► With the kneading and the...

00:21:02 ◼   ► There's a lot of smelling in today's episode.

00:21:03 ◼   ► I wasn't expecting so much smelling.

00:21:05 ◼   ► Oh, I like... I'm a big smell boy. I like to smell everything.

00:21:09 ◼   ► Okay, that's great.

00:21:11 ◼   ► This this crown is great. Is that is that knitted to the crown?

00:21:15 ◼   ► Like no, no, it's I don't know what.

00:21:18 ◼   ► Well, maybe I don't know.

00:21:20 ◼   ► It's it's different material.

00:21:21 ◼   ► OK, I think it's still yarn, though.

00:21:23 ◼   ► I think it might be just like sparkly yarn.

00:21:25 ◼   ► OK, so there's more padding in the box than what?

00:21:30 ◼   ► OK, what else?

00:21:31 ◼   ► There's some colored yarn that holds a card.

00:21:38 ◼   ► OK.

00:21:39 ◼   ► Oh, there's a message from Alan.

00:21:42 ◼   ► Ah, you don't need to read that on the show. That might be a personal message.

00:21:46 ◼   ► I don't think it's personal. It's just a very nice message.

00:21:49 ◼   ► Okay.

00:21:50 ◼   ► So, I mean, I don't think there's anything secret in here.

00:21:53 ◼   ► Hi, Federico. Sorry for the first one.

00:21:55 ◼   ► Sorry, the first one got lost on the way.

00:21:58 ◼   ► I hope you like this little guy when he finally gets to you.

00:22:01 ◼   ► Thanks for all you do, Alan.

00:22:03 ◼   ► Alan, thank you so much. This is a...

00:22:05 ◼   ► And there's yarn holding the card.

00:22:08 ◼   ► This is so lovely, Ellen. Incredible. Thank you. Thank you. Really nice handwriting, too.

00:22:14 ◼   ► Okay, there's more stuff. All right, let's see.

00:22:19 ◼   ► There's a... Ah, this is a holiday card from the Hackett family. That blew up the entire UPS system.

00:22:33 ◼   ► They wanted to know the value of this holiday card.

00:22:37 ◼   ► Yeah, that was the problem with the card, right?

00:22:38 ◼   ► You know, I sent UPS Italy a very stern email a couple of weeks ago.

00:22:43 ◼   ► They were asking me for a market value of the holiday card.

00:22:48 ◼   ► They wrote to me saying, "We cannot determine the market value of the following items.

00:22:53 ◼   ► Holiday greeting card."

00:22:55 ◼   ► I replied to them saying that it was unacceptable, that I literally wrote,

00:22:59 ◼   ► it's unacceptable that you are holding a gift from a friend of mine hostage in your system.

00:23:06 ◼   ► So maybe that was an unfortunate choice of words because maybe I upset them?

00:23:10 ◼   ► Maybe.

00:23:11 ◼   ► What is the market value of a holiday card? Like what is the answer to that question?

00:23:17 ◼   ► Like this is priceless to me, it came from a friend, now what are you gonna do?

00:23:21 ◼   ► Wow, did you know that Steven on this holiday card wrote "I'm the new chairman,

00:23:29 ◼   ► you suck. Wow, thank you, Steven. Whoa! Which is weird because I shipped it a month before we did the

00:23:35 ◼   ► Ricky's. I was so confident. You cheated. That's that's proof of best proof of fixing. Yes. Ricky fixing.

00:23:42 ◼   ► There's more stuff in the box. Of course there is because this needs to continue.

00:23:47 ◼   ► More. There's a little bag, this little bag featuring postcards of Steven's old Macs, like the photos

00:23:58 ◼   ► from the calendar. Oh yeah, these are your extras. The prints. Oh my god, there are the prints.

00:24:03 ◼   ► Oh, there's an apple. What's it called? The Pippin? The Gringen Con. Oh my god, Steven.

00:24:10 ◼   ► Power PC. These are so good. Look at this guy. It's basically like Federico Christmas at the moment.

00:24:20 ◼   ► It is. It was supposed to be.

00:24:22 ◼   ► And there are stickers.

00:24:25 ◼   ► There are stickers, yeah.

00:24:27 ◼   ► Oh my god, these are going to go on my iPad Pro.

00:24:31 ◼   ► I resisted the temptation of putting stickers on the iPad Pro so far.

00:24:34 ◼   ► There's a little iPod sleeping in the sock.

00:24:39 ◼   ► My god, these are so cool.

00:24:40 ◼   ► I wouldn't recommend doing that yet,

00:24:43 ◼   ► because I feel like you might only get a few months out of those stickers on the current iPad, right?

00:24:48 ◼   ► I feel like if you really love the sticker...

00:24:50 ◼   ► The magic keyboard, is it gonna...

00:24:51 ◼   ► They changed the magic keyboard last year.

00:24:53 ◼   ► Oh, okay. Fair enough.

00:24:54 ◼   ► They're not gonna change it again.

00:24:55 ◼   ► Okay. I thought you were gonna put them on the iPad itself.

00:24:57 ◼   ► Hold on, there's more stuff in the box.

00:25:00 ◼   ► No way!

00:25:01 ◼   ► But wait, there's more.

00:25:03 ◼   ► This is the last item.

00:25:05 ◼   ► Box is done.

00:25:08 ◼   ► Get out of the way. Come on, Jesus.

00:25:10 ◼   ► Freaking box.

00:25:11 ◼   ► There it goes. There it goes.

00:25:12 ◼   ► Alright. Oh, God, I made a giant mess of everything.

00:25:17 ◼   ► Okay, there are magnets in here.

00:25:23 ◼   ► This is the official connected magnet.

00:25:30 ◼   ► So there are stickers with the Ricky's, the Ricky's trophy sticker.

00:25:37 ◼   ► And, oh my God, this, the mag tricky.

00:25:41 ◼   ► It smells incredible.

00:25:43 ◼   ► Have you smelled the back of the mag tricky?

00:25:46 ◼   ► I feel like it's probably not good for you.

00:25:48 ◼   ► Oh my God.

00:25:49 ◼   ► This smells like you're inhaling that is going to kill me.

00:25:53 ◼   ► And I love it.

00:25:53 ◼   ► Oh my God.

00:25:55 ◼   ► It smells incredible.

00:25:57 ◼   ► I have not smelled my magic tricky.

00:25:59 ◼   ► Okay.

00:26:00 ◼   ► So I have two of them.

00:26:02 ◼   ► I have two of them.

00:26:05 ◼   ► I'm going to keep one in the box and there's the little, Oh God.

00:26:11 ◼   ► Okay.

00:26:12 ◼   ► I have the magnets, which are two silver ones

00:26:16 ◼   ► and a bigger golden one.

00:26:18 ◼   ► These are really strong magnets.

00:26:20 ◼   ► They're very strong magnets.

00:26:21 ◼   ► How is that possible?

00:26:22 ◼   ► They're much stronger than I anticipated,

00:26:26 ◼   ► but I had to buy them in bulk,

00:26:28 ◼   ► and so they are what they are.

00:26:30 ◼   ► They're so strong that it's, this is a funny thing.

00:26:33 ◼   ► Unless you put the magnet on something magnetic,

00:26:36 ◼   ► it is not possible for me and you to be helpful.

00:26:41 ◼   ► So if you put the magnet down on like a wood or something and you try and put one of the

00:26:47 ◼   ► silver things on me and Federico's locations, they just fly together.

00:26:51 ◼   ► So you have to kind of put it on something.

00:26:53 ◼   ► It's a magnet.

00:26:54 ◼   ► What were you expecting?

00:26:55 ◼   ► It goes on something.

00:26:56 ◼   ► So.

00:26:57 ◼   ► So.

00:26:58 ◼   ► So.

00:26:59 ◼   ► And your golden magnet goes to?

00:27:00 ◼   ► No, so there's been confusion around this.

00:27:03 ◼   ► My thought was you use the silver ones for the winners unless someone is combined and

00:27:09 ◼   ► they get to use the gold one.

00:27:11 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:27:12 ◼   ► - 'Cause you have two silver, so right now,

00:27:13 ◼   ► one would be on Memphis and one would be on you.

00:27:15 ◼   ► - All right.

00:27:16 ◼   ► - And when I win the next event one,

00:27:18 ◼   ► I would get the gold one over Memphis.

00:27:19 ◼   ► - Wait, I am the keynote chairman right now?

00:27:21 ◼   ► - Aren't you?

00:27:22 ◼   ► Or is that Myke?

00:27:23 ◼   ► - No, it's Federico.

00:27:24 ◼   ► - I think it's Federico.

00:27:25 ◼   ► - It's me?

00:27:26 ◼   ► Oh, well done, me.

00:27:26 ◼   ► Okay.

00:27:27 ◼   ► - So on the Wikipedia, rickys.net,

00:27:31 ◼   ► Jason has actually got a guide, which is hilarious

00:27:33 ◼   ► because we all clearly very much need the guide

00:27:36 ◼   ► of how to explain for both the official

00:27:39 ◼   ► wooden illuminated tricky and the mag tricky,

00:27:41 ◼   ► 'cause they are different,

00:27:42 ◼   ► because on the tricky, the real tricky trophy,

00:27:46 ◼   ► the annual is the larger circle.

00:27:48 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:27:49 ◼   ► - At least someone's keeping track of this.

00:27:51 ◼   ► - Yeah, 'cause you can't really like overlap magnets

00:27:55 ◼   ► in the same way that you can the--

00:27:57 ◼   ► - Can I destroy the little padding,

00:28:00 ◼   ► the plastic bags filled with air?

00:28:02 ◼   ► - Yeah, please. - Can I do it?

00:28:04 ◼   ► - Uh-huh.

00:28:05 ◼   ► - Oh, that was underwhelming.

00:28:08 ◼   ► yeah that was pretty oh this is got this is gonna make more noise hold on oh

00:28:15 ◼   ► no how do you feel about popping balloons are very good you like doing it

00:28:25 ◼   ► okay yes especially to kids wait as in like a kids got a balloon you pop it or

00:28:33 ◼   ► You ready for Pop It?

00:28:34 ◼   ► It may have happened on occasion.

00:28:38 ◼   ► He's such a prankster.

00:28:39 ◼   ► He is.

00:28:40 ◼   ► I know, right?

00:28:41 ◼   ► Oh, god.

00:28:42 ◼   ► So I made a mess of everything.

00:28:46 ◼   ► This calendar is going to go on my desk, like above my desk.

00:28:52 ◼   ► The Mag Tricky will go on the fridge.

00:28:55 ◼   ► The stickers will go on the Magic Keyboard.

00:28:58 ◼   ► And where's Little Ricky going to go?

00:29:00 ◼   ► On my desk.

00:29:01 ◼   ► Next to my next to my amplifier.

00:29:04 ◼   ► Here you go.

00:29:05 ◼   ► So the saga of the shipping is finally complete.

00:29:09 ◼   ► It is.

00:29:10 ◼   ► It's complete.

00:29:10 ◼   ► Thank you unnamed.

00:29:13 ◼   ► Pilot.

00:29:13 ◼   ► Well, we know your name, but we cannot share your name.

00:29:16 ◼   ► Thank you listener pilot for your service.

00:29:20 ◼   ► Thank you for your service.

00:29:22 ◼   ► Whenever, whenever I have the same, we like pilots.

00:29:26 ◼   ► I think of the catch me if you can movie

00:29:29 ◼   ► and like how pilots are presented as like these super like fancy people that everybody respects.

00:29:35 ◼   ► I think a pilot's that way like in that movie.

00:29:38 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:29:39 ◼   ► I think people do treat pilots like that.

00:29:42 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:29:42 ◼   ► Like they have that certain energy when they walk through the airport.

00:29:45 ◼   ► Yes, they have that sort of big plane energy.

00:29:49 ◼   ► I mean luckily they walk confidently which is what you want to see.

00:29:54 ◼   ► Like if I don't want to see my pilot like shuffling nervously towards the plane, you know?

00:30:00 ◼   ► Like your pilot is the crappy little guy.

00:30:02 ◼   ► Well like they like walk up to the door and turn around and walk back and then go "oh I don't know"

00:30:06 ◼   ► and then they go on. I don't want that.

00:30:08 ◼   ► We all know that Myke wants his pilot to be taller than he is.

00:30:10 ◼   ► 100%. Well I know my pilot's taller than me, right?

00:30:15 ◼   ► That's how I always imagine it. The pilots are always bigger than me. Big people.

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00:32:14 ◼   ► So last time we spoke about Wordle and Federico's WordleBot

00:32:18 ◼   ► And there's an update to the WordleBot which we'll get to in a second. I was trying to tell a very quick antidote and oh my god

00:32:25 ◼   ► I'm all over the place today. What is the word not antidote?

00:32:28 ◼   ► Anecdote. There you go. A very quick antidote about Wordle today. I woke up this morning and

00:32:35 ◼   ► Everyone I saw posting online was solving the Wordle in two

00:32:40 ◼   ► therefore today I did not play Wordle because I knew I wouldn't get it in 2

00:32:43 ◼   ► and so I was like I don't want to play this and feel bad

00:32:46 ◼   ► so I didn't get it in 2 either don't worry about it. Okay cool well I know

00:32:50 ◼   ► what it is now because I asked Adina I was like what was Wordle today she told

00:32:53 ◼   ► me and I realized I wouldn't have got it in 2.

00:32:55 ◼   ► I think it was very much a like starter word Wordle for people today so like it

00:33:00 ◼   ► worked out pretty well for a lot of people.

00:33:01 ◼   ► Anyway so Federico posted an update to the Wordle bot

00:33:05 ◼   ► to make it more accessible. Now this was surprising to me because

00:33:09 ◼   ► So I'm definitely showing a, and I'm fine to say it,

00:33:12 ◼   ► we all don't know everything, this was a surprise to me

00:33:15 ◼   ► because I had assumed that the Wordlebot that you had

00:33:19 ◼   ► was more accessible because you added explainer text

00:33:25 ◼   ► with the emoji, right?

00:33:26 ◼   ► So the thing that you did was like,

00:33:29 ◼   ► oh, second line, two correct letters, one incorrect.

00:33:33 ◼   ► So I thought, oh, that is obviously more accessible

00:33:37 ◼   ► than how it was prior.

00:33:38 ◼   ► And the way that you did it was like, oh, now it outputs an image.

00:33:42 ◼   ► And I couldn't understand how this would be better

00:33:45 ◼   ► because an image is like an image, right?

00:33:49 ◼   ► Like if you can't see the image clearly, how could it be any better?

00:33:54 ◼   ► So could you explain how, why, and then what you did?

00:33:58 ◼   ► So the way that I approached this initially is exactly as you mentioned.

00:34:03 ◼   ► I thought just by adding the explainer text on each line,

00:34:07 ◼   ► This is going to be more accessible than the default sharing mechanism of Wordle.

00:34:13 ◼   ► And it was, but it wasn't enough, because it still was not fixing the main problem.

00:34:20 ◼   ► There's a core problem with the way that Wordle shares results as a block of emoji.

00:34:26 ◼   ► And specifically, the problem is that people who rely on screen-reading technologies like

00:34:33 ◼   ► voiceover, when voiceover hits one of those tweets that contain all the, you

00:34:39 ◼   ► know, contain the grid of all the emoji from your moral results, if you listen

00:34:45 ◼   ► to what voiceover does, it sounds horrible, because it basically starts

00:34:51 ◼   ► reading green square, gray square, gray square, green square, yellow square, and so

00:34:56 ◼   ► forth for each line and each emoji on each line. It's not a good experience,

00:35:01 ◼   ► It's not a pleasant experience.

00:35:05 ◼   ► And my shortcut, the original version of my shortcut, was not doing anything to fix that.

00:35:10 ◼   ► Images -- and this sounds funny because for years we've been told and we thought, you

00:35:15 ◼   ► know, sharing an image, like sharing a screenshot of text on Twitter is not accessible.

00:35:23 ◼   ► And by default, it is not.

00:35:24 ◼   ► It's still not accessible if you do that.

00:35:27 ◼   ► The thing though is that now on Twitter you can share an image and you can attach an alt text attribute to that image.

00:35:37 ◼   ► You can attach a description to the image.

00:35:41 ◼   ► And this is important because when screen readers like VoiceOver, they read out loud

00:35:48 ◼   ► a tweet that contains an image, if that image contains the alternative text, they are going

00:35:54 ◼   ► to read out loud that description to people who use VoiceOver. It's like you can add a

00:36:01 ◼   ► caption to the image that you share on Twitter that VoiceOver, in this case on all Apple

00:36:08 ◼   ► platforms, VoiceOver will read, thus making the image more accessible than the block of

00:36:15 ◼   ► emoji. Because VoiceOver is going to say image, description for the image, and it's going

00:36:21 ◼   ► to read your description of the image that you attach to your tweet.

00:36:25 ◼   ► So I have improved Wordlebot to support two different output formats.

00:36:32 ◼   ► The classic one with a block of emoji and the description for each line.

00:36:38 ◼   ► So you're going to have your classic line of emoji and next to the line a summary.

00:36:46 ◼   ► Or you can now export your emoji grid as a PNG image.

00:36:51 ◼   ► It saves to your photo library.

00:36:53 ◼   ► You can attach the image to a tweet, and either on the Twitter website, in the Twitter app,

00:37:00 ◼   ► in Tweetbot, and in any other compatible client that supports accessible images, you can open

00:37:06 ◼   ► the alt text field for the image, you can hit paste, and you will have the line results

00:37:15 ◼   ► already filled in, that will serve as your description for the image that you are attaching

00:37:21 ◼   ► to your tweet.

00:37:23 ◼   ► So that folks who use VoiceOver, when VoiceOver reads the tweet on the timeline, it will say

00:37:28 ◼   ► "image", "description for the image", "line 1", "2 perfect", "1 partial", and so forth.

00:37:34 ◼   ► How do I see the alt text description on an image?

00:37:39 ◼   ► I can't, right?

00:37:40 ◼   ► You have to use VoiceOver.

00:37:41 ◼   ► I think in the Twitter app you have, it's only shown if you use VoiceOver.

00:37:46 ◼   ► I'm not sure if in third-party clients, some of them allow you to see it, even if you have

00:37:54 ◼   ► VoiceOver disabled.

00:37:55 ◼   ► Okay, yeah.

00:37:57 ◼   ► They're saying in Discord that you can't.

00:38:00 ◼   ► Apparently on Android they do, which is odd, but it might be like an Android accessibility

00:38:05 ◼   ► option.

00:38:06 ◼   ► But yeah, okay, fair enough.

00:38:07 ◼   ► Well, this is cool to do this then.

00:38:09 ◼   ► This seems complicated though.

00:38:10 ◼   ► It was because there's no, there's no, you would think, oh, in shortcuts, I'm sure there's

00:38:17 ◼   ► a way to say, take this emoji text and make it into an image. There is not, there's no,

00:38:27 ◼   ► in shortcuts there's no action that explicitly lets you do text to image. You can do it implicitly,

00:38:36 ◼   ► Meaning you can take a text action, put images from input after it, and you will get an image.

00:38:47 ◼   ► But there's no control over how that image is put together.

00:38:51 ◼   ► Meaning you cannot style the size or the proportion or the alignment of the text at all.

00:39:00 ◼   ► Why is your Wordle formatted in a circle?

00:39:03 ◼   ► I don't know, man.

00:39:05 ◼   ► Don't ask me.

00:39:06 ◼   ► There's nothing you can do about that by default.

00:39:09 ◼   ► Now, there are some third-party shortcut utilities

00:39:13 ◼   ► that have actions to do that.

00:39:16 ◼   ► However, I did not want to have any third-party dependencies

00:39:20 ◼   ► into this shortcut.

00:39:21 ◼   ► This is a very popular shortcut that has really taken off,

00:39:25 ◼   ► and I don't want to add any complication to people

00:39:28 ◼   ► in saying, "Oh, but make sure you install

00:39:31 ◼   ► this third-party app from the App Store."

00:39:33 ◼   ► It's not a great experience.

00:39:35 ◼   ► So I remembered from my Apple Music Wrapped experiments

00:39:40 ◼   ► a few years ago, I remember that there was a way

00:39:44 ◼   ► to sort of work your way around text to image conversion

00:39:49 ◼   ► in shortcuts by using this ridiculous workaround

00:39:54 ◼   ► that involves creating a local webpage

00:39:58 ◼   ► and using HTML to turn text into an image.

00:40:03 ◼   ► I know it's ridiculous, but it works.

00:40:05 ◼   ► And so I did some Googling and someone on Reddit,

00:40:09 ◼   ► which I linked on Mac stories

00:40:12 ◼   ► and also credited them in the shortcut,

00:40:14 ◼   ► had this exact same problem last year.

00:40:17 ◼   ► And they came up with a solution for converting emoji

00:40:21 ◼   ► to images in shortcuts.

00:40:24 ◼   ► You're basically loading this HTML data as a URL,

00:40:29 ◼   ► and then you're saying crop the URL,

00:40:32 ◼   ► which is totally ridiculous, but it works.

00:40:35 ◼   ► I had to modify that to get the exact dimensions

00:40:39 ◼   ► that I wanted, and I also needed to figure out

00:40:42 ◼   ► how to turn a grid, this is a fun,

00:40:46 ◼   ► it was a fun programming problem for me,

00:40:49 ◼   ► like how do you turn a grid of emoji into one image?

00:40:54 ◼   ► Because if you think about it,

00:40:55 ◼   ► I only had a way to get a single emoji

00:40:59 ◼   ► and make it into an image.

00:41:01 ◼   ► But what I needed to do was, I needed to start two repeat loops, basically.

00:41:08 ◼   ► Because what I needed to do was, OK, I need to break it line by line

00:41:14 ◼   ► and do all the emoji on the same line,

00:41:18 ◼   ► and I need to merge them horizontally,

00:41:21 ◼   ► so that I have one image that is just one line of all the squares next to each other.

00:41:27 ◼   ► But then I also need to merge them vertically, right?

00:41:31 ◼   ► Because I need to put one line after the other.

00:41:34 ◼   ► And so it was fun to solve this

00:41:36 ◼   ► with multiple repeat loops in shortcuts.

00:41:41 ◼   ► Basically, for those curious,

00:41:43 ◼   ► I'm splitting the grid of emoji by line,

00:41:47 ◼   ► and then I'm splitting the line by character.

00:41:50 ◼   ► And the shortcut iterates through all the characters

00:41:53 ◼   ► and then merges all the lines,

00:41:55 ◼   ► and you end up with a single PNG

00:41:57 ◼   ► that is saved into the Photos app.

00:42:00 ◼   ► So that was fun.

00:42:02 ◼   ► Shouldn't be this difficult though,

00:42:04 ◼   ► to make an emoji into an image in Shortcuts, but it works.

00:42:09 ◼   ► - Thank you for your service.

00:42:10 ◼   ► - You're welcome.

00:42:11 ◼   ► It was fun.

00:42:13 ◼   ► - So like Steven has a bathtub segment,

00:42:16 ◼   ► I feel like I should have a segment

00:42:18 ◼   ► where I bring products that I find on the internet

00:42:22 ◼   ► to the two of you that I think you might be interested in.

00:42:25 ◼   ► Today I have two charging related products.

00:42:28 ◼   ► They tend to be charging related things too, I realize.

00:42:31 ◼   ► I have the Mophie MagSafe Compatible

00:42:35 ◼   ► three-in-one travel charger, catchy name from Mophie there.

00:42:40 ◼   ► But this is a very interesting

00:42:42 ◼   ► and I think kind of cool product.

00:42:43 ◼   ► It is a fold-up charger like the MagSafe Duo,

00:42:47 ◼   ► but it has three elements to it.

00:42:49 ◼   ► It is fully MagSafe certified compatible.

00:42:53 ◼   ► so it charges up to 15 watts.

00:42:55 ◼   ► So it gets the full power that MagSafe can get.

00:42:58 ◼   ► That's in the middle.

00:42:59 ◼   ► On either side of it, you have a little AirPods tray.

00:43:01 ◼   ► So it's a Qi charge, which has like a molded part,

00:43:04 ◼   ► which would fit AirPods.

00:43:06 ◼   ► Obviously, I don't know how that's gonna work

00:43:08 ◼   ► as they change AirPod cases, et cetera, et cetera,

00:43:10 ◼   ► but we'll see.

00:43:11 ◼   ► And also a watch charger.

00:43:13 ◼   ► They can both charge up to five watts.

00:43:15 ◼   ► It comes with a cable and a 30 watt brick to power it all.

00:43:19 ◼   ► And a cute little pouch.

00:43:20 ◼   ► It's 149, oh $149.95 available from the Apple store right now.

00:43:25 ◼   ► I think it's just in the US,

00:43:30 ◼   ► I guess I couldn't find it in the UK

00:43:32 ◼   ► 'cause I would have bought this product

00:43:33 ◼   ► because I think that this is a really good looking product.

00:43:36 ◼   ► - I can ship it to you.

00:43:37 ◼   ► - But now I just realized I can't do the MagSafe

00:43:40 ◼   ► because of the PopSocket, but anyway.

00:43:43 ◼   ► - You know, you made fun of the name,

00:43:45 ◼   ► but I think these chargers have the best names of anything

00:43:48 ◼   ► in our sort of world because it's exactly what it is.

00:43:53 ◼   ► So go, what is that?

00:43:54 ◼   ► Oh, it's a three-in-one travel charger.

00:43:56 ◼   ► You totally get it.

00:43:56 ◼   ► - Fair enough.

00:43:58 ◼   ► You are completely correct.

00:43:59 ◼   ► It's a boring name, it's a long name, but it works.

00:44:02 ◼   ► The next one is a, this is purely for Federico, this one.

00:44:07 ◼   ► It is a Belkin MagSafe charger.

00:44:09 ◼   ► It is $60 from the Apple Store.

00:44:11 ◼   ► It's available in black or white,

00:44:13 ◼   ► comes with braided cable that's two meters in length,

00:44:15 ◼   ► which is twice that of Apple's.

00:44:17 ◼   ► It does the full 15 watt speed.

00:44:19 ◼   ► But the reason it's just a Federico is this MagSafe charger has a kickstand.

00:44:23 ◼   ► Come on.

00:44:25 ◼   ► They have kickstands so you can charge and watch things, but it doesn't matter

00:44:30 ◼   ► what it is because old kickstand teachy over here, super into it.

00:44:34 ◼   ► Both of these are available on Apple's website, which that's why I reckon

00:44:39 ◼   ► that they are like a rare thing.

00:44:41 ◼   ► These are both fully MagSafe certified, these products, which isn't

00:44:45 ◼   ► a thing that we see very much.

00:44:47 ◼   ► Yeah, but is it available in Italy?

00:44:49 ◼   ► Like, that's my problem with all the Belkin stuff.

00:44:52 ◼   ► It's not available for me.

00:44:54 ◼   ► Neither of these products are available for me either.

00:44:57 ◼   ► So, we're gonna have to get, I guess, one true John on the case.

00:45:00 ◼   ► Oh, wait a second.

00:45:02 ◼   ► Or, what is it, Big Apple Buddy?

00:45:04 ◼   ► Wait a second, wait a second.

00:45:07 ◼   ► So, this one with the kickstand is not available.

00:45:11 ◼   ► However, I just searched the Italian Apple Store,

00:45:15 ◼   ► and I think that finally the 3-in-1 Belkin charging pad

00:45:20 ◼   ► is available for me in Italy.

00:45:23 ◼   ► - What is that one?

00:45:24 ◼   ► What is that one?

00:45:25 ◼   ► - The one that we talked about a while back

00:45:27 ◼   ► that does the fast charging for the watch.

00:45:29 ◼   ► I think it's this one.

00:45:30 ◼   ► - Oh, Belkin Boost Charge,

00:45:31 ◼   ► Boost Up Arrow Charge TM Pro 3-in-1 wireless charging pad

00:45:36 ◼   ► with MagSafe.

00:45:37 ◼   ► - Okay, that's a bad name.

00:45:38 ◼   ► - I think it's finally available for me.

00:45:42 ◼   ► Guys, don't buy it.

00:45:43 ◼   ► Don't steal it from me, alright?

00:45:45 ◼   ► Please, I need this thing on my nightstand.

00:45:48 ◼   ► Are you worried that everyone in Italy is currently buying it because you're talking about it?

00:45:52 ◼   ► Yes.

00:45:53 ◼   ► Are they all taller or shorter than you?

00:45:56 ◼   ► No, see that's the thing. I think that everybody is listening to me all the time.

00:46:00 ◼   ► That's one of my things.

00:46:01 ◼   ► Interesting.

00:46:02 ◼   ► I mean, to be fair, they should.

00:46:04 ◼   ► Have you ever seen the Truman Show?

00:46:07 ◼   ► No, no, listening as in following my advice.

00:46:11 ◼   ► Oh, they're just... it's not like a creepy thing. Everyone's just like...

00:46:14 ◼   ► It's a pleasant thing.

00:46:16 ◼   ► Oh, this isn't like an "I think people are listening to me, it's bad."

00:46:19 ◼   ► It's like, everyone pays attention to my every word because it's so good.

00:46:22 ◼   ► Everybody pays attention to me.

00:46:24 ◼   ► This is like a weird MagSafe... a weird air power, this thing.

00:46:29 ◼   ► Yes, this is weird air power and it does Apple...

00:46:32 ◼   ► It's like air power from another dimension or something.

00:46:35 ◼   ► Yes, it's boring air power, which is exactly what I wanted.

00:46:39 ◼   ► You've got the three separate positions and you put the things down and they charge.

00:46:45 ◼   ► And it comes with fast charging for the Apple Watch Series 7, which is the new thing this year.

00:46:51 ◼   ► I just found a product on Apple Store.

00:46:52 ◼   ► They must have added a bunch of stuff today.

00:46:54 ◼   ► The Belkin Secure Holder with Wire Cable for AirTag.

00:46:58 ◼   ► Oh, this is new.

00:47:00 ◼   ► Must be new, right?

00:47:01 ◼   ► This is exactly what I'm looking for for luggage stuff.

00:47:05 ◼   ► It's like, basically you lock it into place and it never comes off until you unscrew it

00:47:10 ◼   ► again, I guess, as like a key or something.

00:47:12 ◼   ► I could take one of those.

00:47:13 ◼   ► Do you see they've even got, there's one of an image, Steven, you'll like it.

00:47:16 ◼   ► It's like attached to a Pelican case.

00:47:18 ◼   ► Oh, where is this?

00:47:19 ◼   ► I need to find this.

00:47:21 ◼   ► Well, I put it in the Discord, it's also in the show notes.

00:47:24 ◼   ► But this looks cool.

00:47:25 ◼   ► That does look cool.

00:47:26 ◼   ► I hope they have this on the UK website, I bet they don't.

00:47:28 ◼   ► But I'll do whatever I want.

00:47:30 ◼   ► They come in white or black.

00:47:32 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

00:47:33 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm ordering a couple of these.

00:47:37 ◼   ► Is this something that I want?

00:47:38 ◼   ► Oh, it's on the UK store!

00:47:40 ◼   ► Hooray!

00:47:41 ◼   ► Hooray.

00:47:42 ◼   ► I'm going to get one of these because this is exactly what I wanted when I was still

00:47:46 ◼   ► trying to...

00:47:47 ◼   ► Oh, it's sold out.

00:47:48 ◼   ► So that's good.

00:47:49 ◼   ► No!

00:47:50 ◼   ► I expect it's like not yet available.

00:47:54 ◼   ► They've got the thing up but it hasn't actually been made available here.

00:47:57 ◼   ► But I'll look forward to that because that's exactly what I was looking for.

00:48:02 ◼   ► And so concludes my tour of Apple's new accessories.

00:48:06 ◼   ► Thank you for your service, Myke.

00:48:09 ◼   ► Anytime.

00:48:10 ◼   ► I'm stuck using Apple Pay to buy one of these Belkin things.

00:48:14 ◼   ► I can't read an ad yet.

00:48:16 ◼   ► Oh, we've got to like, just spend some time for you here.

00:48:20 ◼   ► Yeah, come on.

00:48:21 ◼   ► There we go.

00:48:22 ◼   ► Just like jump a little bit.

00:48:23 ◼   ► Because I'm on an Intel Mac, so it has to like talk to my phone for me to do it.

00:48:26 ◼   ► It took a long time.

00:48:27 ◼   ► Yeah, that can be a little bit unreliable.

00:48:29 ◼   ► Yes.

00:48:30 ◼   ► I've agreed.

00:48:31 ◼   ► - Okay, now it's done.

00:48:33 ◼   ► Now we can move on.

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00:51:10 ◼   ► Roast me, baby.

00:51:12 ◼   ► We're doing it again.

00:51:13 ◼   ► Roast me.

00:51:15 ◼   ► So, okay.

00:51:17 ◼   ► So I got to say something here.

00:51:19 ◼   ► Does it have to be as mean as the last time?

00:51:24 ◼   ► What happened last time that you said that you didn't have a memory of it being me?

00:51:28 ◼   ► I don't know, we were very mean about it. You guys were both mean to me.

00:51:31 ◼   ► Why?

00:51:32 ◼   ► Because you roasted me.

00:51:34 ◼   ► But like, what was mean about it?

00:51:37 ◼   ► I don't know, the whole thing.

00:51:38 ◼   ► Well, here's the thing. Hey, I tell you what, right? You're going last, right?

00:51:43 ◼   ► We're on our list. It's going to be me, then Steven, then Federico.

00:51:47 ◼   ► You have the ability, Federico, to set up how you're going to be roasted.

00:51:53 ◼   ► You know, if you come at me when you look at my screenshots here,

00:51:57 ◼   ► you know, then I'm gonna clap back at you.

00:52:01 ◼   ► But if you, you know, roasts don't have to be mean.

00:52:05 ◼   ► They can be, you know, we can just, you can just comment on my stuff.

00:52:09 ◼   ► But it's when you start saying stuff like, "Oh, how can you even see your icons of

00:52:13 ◼   ► that wallpaper?" Then, you know.

00:52:14 ◼   ► I think of roasts as a clickbait thing to get people to listen to the chapters.

00:52:19 ◼   ► Right.

00:52:19 ◼   ► We don't have to be mean to each other.

00:52:21 ◼   ► No.

00:52:21 ◼   ► Well, you both were mean to me.

00:52:23 ◼   ► Okay, well we'll try to behave this time, but let's start with Myke.

00:52:25 ◼   ► [laughter]

00:52:27 ◼   ► I don't remember being mean, I apologize.

00:52:30 ◼   ► It was very, very, very, very mean, very...

00:52:32 ◼   ► Scarring?

00:52:33 ◼   ► Kindergarten mean, you know?

00:52:35 ◼   ► Kindergarten mean.

00:52:37 ◼   ► Yes, yes.

00:52:38 ◼   ► Right.

00:52:38 ◼   ► Anyway, look at this wallpaper.

00:52:41 ◼   ► [laughter]

00:52:43 ◼   ► What sucker has this?

00:52:44 ◼   ► Well, some can't. So we are roasting iPad home screens.

00:52:49 ◼   ► iPad home screens today.

00:52:51 ◼   ► We've done... you guys have done Mac docs before I had a Mac.

00:52:56 ◼   ► I guess maybe we should do an addendum at some point for my MacBook Pro doc.

00:53:00 ◼   ► Well, I mean, you had one, but you just weren't really doing anything with it.

00:53:03 ◼   ► So I guess maybe we could do that as a mini topic in the future, as Federico's...

00:53:07 ◼   ► I think we did that when you were at the beach one week.

00:53:10 ◼   ► Yes, yes. And also my Mac mini was not with me physically.

00:53:14 ◼   ► Oh, okay, cool. That's a good... we can put that info later on. Let's get Federico.

00:53:18 ◼   ► Plus your menu bar's madness.

00:53:21 ◼   ► Are we doing dock or menu bar for you?

00:53:23 ◼   ► You didn't do it. Is it dock or menu bar,

00:53:25 ◼   ► the one that you didn't do?

00:53:26 ◼   ► I think it was dock, right?

00:53:27 ◼   ► -I think it was dock. -I don't remember.

00:53:29 ◼   ► I didn't do the dock, yeah.

00:53:31 ◼   ► We've done iPhone home screens,

00:53:33 ◼   ► and now we're doing iPad home screens.

00:53:35 ◼   ► And now I would like for context here to say that

00:53:40 ◼   ► I was the only one in this group of people

00:53:44 ◼   ► that bothered to use an iPad Pro,

00:53:49 ◼   ► these two just took a screenshot of an iPad Mini.

00:53:53 ◼   ► Well, I mean, I could have taken a screenshot of my iPad Pro,

00:53:56 ◼   ► but that would have been useless to you because I don't use it.

00:54:00 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, yeah, OK.

00:54:01 ◼   ► So I took a screenshot of the iPad I use every day,

00:54:05 ◼   ► not one that I use once every few weeks.

00:54:08 ◼   ► And again, you've gone mean already.

00:54:11 ◼   ► You've gone mean.

00:54:12 ◼   ► No, I'm not.

00:54:13 ◼   ► See, I know I am not mean. I am doing it out of love. Like I'm just saying, you know, to

00:54:21 ◼   ► make you better as a person. All right, cool. So again, you are setting the energy that

00:54:27 ◼   ► you want by the time we get round to yours. So I have two screens for you. They're in

00:54:33 ◼   ► the, you have them. I've put them in the notes. They're available to you. What would you roast

00:54:40 ◼   ► Okay, what is it gonna take? What is it gonna take for you to change this wallpaper?

00:54:47 ◼   ► Finding a better image that I like more.

00:54:48 ◼   ► Put a price on this wallpaper.

00:54:50 ◼   ► There is no price. What do you mean put a price?

00:54:52 ◼   ► No, there must be a price. Okay, would you change your wallpaper if I sent you right now $1,000?

00:54:58 ◼   ► Wow.

00:54:59 ◼   ► No.

00:55:00 ◼   ► How about $2,000?

00:55:01 ◼   ► Well, because you like it.

00:55:03 ◼   ► $5,000.

00:55:04 ◼   ► Yeah, I'll do it for $5,000. I'll change my wallpaper for $5,000.

00:55:09 ◼   ► Okay, would you do it for four and a half?

00:55:11 ◼   ► No, I've set up five now, that's my price.

00:55:13 ◼   ► Zach wants to know if you would do it for $68.7 billion.

00:55:17 ◼   ► Yeah, I'll change everyone's wallpaper.

00:55:18 ◼   ► I'll find a way to go around

00:55:20 ◼   ► and change everyone's wallpaper for $68.7 billion.

00:55:24 ◼   ► Okay, so wallpaper is not gonna change.

00:55:26 ◼   ► You know what's quite funny to me?

00:55:26 ◼   ► I have this image open, right, and I'm looking at it.

00:55:28 ◼   ► Behind it is my iMac desktop, same wallpaper.

00:55:32 ◼   ► (laughs)

00:55:34 ◼   ► So I'm liking some kind of recursive nightmare.

00:55:38 ◼   ► I would like to focus on the bottom right corner

00:55:42 ◼   ► of this home screen.

00:55:44 ◼   ► In the dock, there's the app library.

00:55:47 ◼   ► That icon, is that the economist?

00:55:50 ◼   ► - It's also on the home screen.

00:55:52 ◼   ► - It's also on his home screen.

00:55:53 ◼   ► - That's on the, oh my God, you're so adult and fancy now.

00:55:58 ◼   ► - I read the economist every morning now.

00:56:02 ◼   ► - Oh, you do.

00:56:03 ◼   ► In your top hat and your monocle.

00:56:07 ◼   ► sitting there with your iPad mini? Well before when I was reading comic books at

00:56:11 ◼   ► my top pack at Monaco it didn't really work so I just switched to the

00:56:14 ◼   ► economist. Okay before we go any further we need to roast Apple a little bit for

00:56:20 ◼   ► the iPad mini. How bad are the margins on the home screen? It's so stupid! The spacing it's so bad why? Like there's

00:56:29 ◼   ► there are so many problems with the with the home screen in general I mean we

00:56:33 ◼   ► mentioned before on the show, like, how there's limited flexibility with stacks,

00:56:38 ◼   ► you cannot mix and match widgets of multiple sizes, the spacing and

00:56:44 ◼   ► the sizing of the shortcut widget, which is also in this home screen, is so bad,

00:56:49 ◼   ► like, why are the shortcuts in the shortcut widget so huge? I feel like you

00:56:55 ◼   ► could fit double the number of shortcuts in the shortcuts widget and it would still work.

00:57:00 ◼   ► like I could fit a whole row of app icons on either side of the grid right

00:57:06 ◼   ► like that that margin the margin so much on that side I feel like it's not as

00:57:14 ◼   ► noticeable in like when you're holding the iPad but in the screenshots it's

00:57:21 ◼   ► really bad well I I was looking at the screenshot I didn't notice it until you

00:57:25 ◼   ► mentioned it now I can't stop noticing it because you just get used to it right

00:57:29 ◼   ► but it's not great. So yeah Apple must do a better job here. Okay, shortcuts.

00:57:38 ◼   ► Mega temp. What do you think it might do? You're setting the temperature of

00:57:46 ◼   ► Mega Studio? I have HomeKit radiators, like HomeKit radiator valves. Oh okay. And so it

00:57:53 ◼   ► just turns them, it's like just it basically activates either on or off

00:57:56 ◼   ► Like so I tap it and it's like do you want it on or off and either turn the radiators on or turn the radiators off

00:58:00 ◼   ► Oh, no. Oh, no. Well, I just I've been looking at this in discord, but it's open in a new tab in Safari. Uh-huh

00:58:07 ◼   ► Your background image is a picture of wallpaper at this hotel in LA

00:58:13 ◼   ► Yeah, but your photo includes a seam in the physical wallpaper

00:58:17 ◼   ► Yeah, and so like the leave doesn't line up like if you look next to the TV app icon

00:58:22 ◼   ► It makes it so much worse what you need to understand very clearly is I don't care

00:58:26 ◼   ► - Right. - Move down eight inches.

00:58:28 ◼   ► - What you think about this?

00:58:30 ◼   ► I don't know. - That's what I was saying.

00:58:32 ◼   ► Like, what would it take for you to care?

00:58:34 ◼   ► - But the thing is- - And apparently $5,000

00:58:36 ◼   ► is the answer. - I don't think

00:58:37 ◼   ► this is leaves.

00:58:38 ◼   ► I know this is wallpaper.

00:58:40 ◼   ► Wallpaper has seams.

00:58:42 ◼   ► It makes sense to me that it's there, right?

00:58:45 ◼   ► - I wanna Photoshop it and like fix it for you.

00:58:48 ◼   ► - So just let me double check here.

00:58:50 ◼   ► You know that by, when we say setting a wallpaper

00:58:54 ◼   ► on your home screen, (laughing)

00:58:54 ◼   ► don't mean a physical wallpaper.

00:58:56 ◼   ► - Wait, what?

00:58:57 ◼   ► I thought you could only choose actual wallpaper.

00:59:01 ◼   ► - This is like the tall people and looking after them.

00:59:04 ◼   ► You don't have to do that literally.

00:59:06 ◼   ► - I've lost in my life.

00:59:09 ◼   ► - Okay, okay, hold on.

00:59:10 ◼   ► Shop rep and shop rep iOS ellipsis.

00:59:15 ◼   ► - Yeah, okay, so this is like,

00:59:17 ◼   ► that is called show prep iOS 15.

00:59:20 ◼   ► So I technically, it doesn't need to say that anymore,

00:59:23 ◼   ► But I've not decided which one of these two I want to keep.

00:59:26 ◼   ► Because the one on the left, what it does is it will say,

00:59:28 ◼   ► hey, what show, sets a timer, and then opens the Google

00:59:32 ◼   ► Doc for that related show.

00:59:35 ◼   ► The show prep iOS 15 one opens a split screen

00:59:40 ◼   ► of Safari, Google Docs, and slides in the Apple

00:59:46 ◼   ► Note in a slide over.

00:59:50 ◼   ► And I just haven't decided which one of those I prefer.

00:59:52 ◼   ► So I've not gotten rid of one or the other yet.

00:59:56 ◼   ► - Okay, okay.

00:59:58 ◼   ► That's nice.

00:59:59 ◼   ► - 'Cause sometimes they're doing all of the show.

01:00:01 ◼   ► It's like, it's not always what I want.

01:00:02 ◼   ► Sometimes with some shows, I just want to read the document.

01:00:05 ◼   ► Like I don't need Safari to be there.

01:00:07 ◼   ► So like, I just haven't decided

01:00:09 ◼   ► which one of these two shortcuts I'm gonna keep.

01:00:11 ◼   ► So what I would probably do is just rename the other one,

01:00:14 ◼   ► like, and keep them both,

01:00:16 ◼   ► because then I can just choose

01:00:18 ◼   ► whether I want the whole shebang

01:00:20 ◼   ► or I just want to open the Google document.

01:00:22 ◼   ► - My last question for you, Myke,

01:00:23 ◼   ► is the fantastical widget.

01:00:25 ◼   ► You have the Excel fantastical widget,

01:00:28 ◼   ► which is a very nice widget.

01:00:29 ◼   ► However, is the heat map on the calendar ever useful

01:00:34 ◼   ► considering that all the days are yellow?

01:00:36 ◼   ► - I know.

01:00:37 ◼   ► This is a particular issue that I have.

01:00:40 ◼   ► Like, I wished this could be more relative, right?

01:00:44 ◼   ► Well, like, I always have.

01:00:45 ◼   ► Because you can see a subtle shade of orange on bees here days, but it's very faint.

01:00:52 ◼   ► Of the three options, I prefer this one.

01:00:55 ◼   ► I don't like the dots because that's not useful to me at all.

01:00:58 ◼   ► I don't like it to just be blank.

01:01:00 ◼   ► There are occasions when this is useful to me, but it's rare.

01:01:05 ◼   ► But I like having the date thing there anyway, and so I just choose one of the three.

01:01:10 ◼   ► Just so you know, there's some stacks.

01:01:11 ◼   ► So there's Carrotweather on the Fantasti-Cal.

01:01:14 ◼   ► cow. Okay. There is a shortcuts underneath Timery, which is just timer related shortcuts

01:01:21 ◼   ► and the photos widget in the bottom right corner. There is a Widgetsmith photos widget

01:01:27 ◼   ► and also a Widgetsmith timezone widget. The only one of those that I have automatically

01:01:33 ◼   ► changing is the carrot and fantastic cow one. Well, I mean, besides the wallpaper, um, and

01:01:42 ◼   ► the economist and the economist and narwhal which I still don't understand why

01:01:48 ◼   ► like every time this every time I try to use Apollo

01:01:52 ◼   ► Apollo is simple! I feel like the only way I can get it to a point where I want to use it is by

01:01:56 ◼   ► setting 7,000 preferences first and every time I try I just give up this is

01:02:03 ◼   ► one of your things it's one of my things you don't want to change your mind about

01:02:07 ◼   ► I tried so many times with Apollo.

01:02:10 ◼   ► I'm surprised that Steven hasn't asked a question.

01:02:14 ◼   ► I've got a couple of things.

01:02:15 ◼   ► Okay, good.

01:02:15 ◼   ► Okay.

01:02:16 ◼   ► You have Instagram, which does not have an iPad app.

01:02:18 ◼   ► There you go.

01:02:19 ◼   ► Yeah, but it's a really nice website.

01:02:21 ◼   ► Is it?

01:02:22 ◼   ► That web view is really good.

01:02:23 ◼   ► Is it?

01:02:24 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:02:25 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, okay.

01:02:26 ◼   ► And you use it enough to want it on your--

01:02:29 ◼   ► I love Instagram.

01:02:29 ◼   ► I love Instagram.

01:02:31 ◼   ► My biggest problem with this,

01:02:34 ◼   ► I like the widgets at the top.

01:02:35 ◼   ► I like the icons beneath them.

01:02:36 ◼   ► you'll see that mine is laid out in a similar way.

01:02:39 ◼   ► What I don't understand is the spatial relationship

01:02:43 ◼   ► between the Timery widget and the Photos widget,

01:02:48 ◼   ► which here is showing you some sort of food

01:02:50 ◼   ► that you've cooked that looks like eyeballs.

01:02:51 ◼   ► - Brussels sprouts, it's Brussels sprouts.

01:02:54 ◼   ► - It's eyeballs.

01:02:54 ◼   ► - Eyeballs sprouts.

01:02:55 ◼   ► - Why are these two like not in a--

01:02:58 ◼   ► - I like it.

01:02:59 ◼   ► - It feels very strange.

01:03:01 ◼   ► - I don't want them stacked up against each other.

01:03:03 ◼   ► I like them kind of split apart like that.

01:03:05 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:03:06 ◼   ► I like it, but I just I think visually this makes the most sense for me. You don't think the rest of it

01:03:12 ◼   ► I agree with most of your app choices

01:03:14 ◼   ► I don't like the icon you use for slack or for overcast or for one password, but that's fine

01:03:21 ◼   ► It's totally your call the aubergine slack one is the only one that makes like recognizable against all of the other

01:03:26 ◼   ► multicolored

01:03:28 ◼   ► App icons that exist in the world. Yeah, it does look like photos and I try to go back to it

01:03:33 ◼   ► sometimes but I just can't do it. I use overcast in dark mode so I only ever see

01:03:36 ◼   ► gray and blue so orange would make no freaking sense to me and what was the

01:03:40 ◼   ► other one you didn't like? One password. Again, one password's always in dark mode

01:03:44 ◼   ► so like why would I want to see the light mode icon? Alright well so that's

01:03:48 ◼   ► your first... I have a second screen. Yeah let's do your second screen. It's not really that

01:03:53 ◼   ► much of anything. There's the... this is the new time-ery extra large widget. Yeah.

01:04:00 ◼   ► where we can see that you worked for five hours on Monday.

01:04:05 ◼   ► - Yep.

01:04:06 ◼   ► - Five and a half on Tuesday.

01:04:07 ◼   ► - Yep.

01:04:08 ◼   ► - And we can see what they're broken up against.

01:04:10 ◼   ► A lot of it's blurred out for secrets.

01:04:13 ◼   ► And then you have, is that a craft widget?

01:04:17 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:04:18 ◼   ► - For Cortex brand.

01:04:20 ◼   ► So we can't see that you're making a boomerang

01:04:22 ◼   ► or whatever it is y'all are doing over there.

01:04:24 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:04:25 ◼   ► And then is this the transit thing

01:04:28 ◼   ► that you have on your iPhone?

01:04:29 ◼   ► - It's called Train Beacon.

01:04:31 ◼   ► - Train Beacon.

01:04:32 ◼   ► - And it's just like widgets that you can get

01:04:35 ◼   ► from place to place.

01:04:36 ◼   ► You can say from X station to Y station,

01:04:39 ◼   ► and then it shows me all of the train times

01:04:41 ◼   ► between those locations.

01:04:43 ◼   ► - Why no apps?

01:04:45 ◼   ► Why not kind of even it out with the first screen?

01:04:47 ◼   ► - I don't really feel like I need any more apps, genuinely.

01:04:51 ◼   ► Like between the dock and the first screen,

01:04:53 ◼   ► like there's no other apps that I feel like I need

01:04:55 ◼   ► that amount of access to.

01:04:59 ◼   ► I want more widgets on this screen,

01:05:01 ◼   ► I just haven't worked out which ones.

01:05:03 ◼   ► Like the plan is like, so over time,

01:05:05 ◼   ► I've added more widgets to this screen.

01:05:07 ◼   ► And so like just as more cool widgets appear,

01:05:09 ◼   ► I just put them on this screen.

01:05:11 ◼   ► - Yeah, I guess it is nice to have like a landing place

01:05:13 ◼   ► for them.

01:05:13 ◼   ► - And it's just there,

01:05:14 ◼   ► like this is almost just reference stuff.

01:05:16 ◼   ► Like I don't really spend a lot of time on this screen.

01:05:18 ◼   ► Like really it was mostly because I wanted to make sure

01:05:20 ◼   ► I had the train one on there,

01:05:21 ◼   ► 'cause I do use that the most frequently.

01:05:24 ◼   ► And I didn't want to put it on the main screen

01:05:26 ◼   ► because I just didn't really feel

01:05:28 ◼   ► like I knew where I could go.

01:05:29 ◼   ► And then I would have to get rid of app icons.

01:05:31 ◼   ► So I was like, oh.

01:05:32 ◼   ► And I like the time reset.

01:05:33 ◼   ► I like just having all the charts or whatever.

01:05:35 ◼   ► So I just go for that.

01:05:38 ◼   ► OK.

01:05:39 ◼   ► No comments on my doc or anything.

01:05:41 ◼   ► It's just aside from the icon choices you didn't like.

01:05:44 ◼   ► Man, I agree with all the app choices.

01:05:46 ◼   ► I know you use Spark.

01:05:49 ◼   ► I think the three most recent apps

01:05:52 ◼   ► is like totally an individual thing.

01:05:54 ◼   ► I don't think I have that on on my iPad mini.

01:05:57 ◼   ► - I like it enough.

01:05:58 ◼   ► I use Tweetbot now by the way to look at Twitter,

01:06:02 ◼   ► but just every now and then I like to look

01:06:04 ◼   ► at Twitter's notifications thing

01:06:05 ◼   ► 'cause it just can be a bit better.

01:06:07 ◼   ► And for searching, Twitter's better than Tweetbot.

01:06:10 ◼   ► - Yes.

01:06:11 ◼   ► - But I'm mostly using Tweetbot

01:06:14 ◼   ► as like my Twitter experience.

01:06:15 ◼   ► However, I am--

01:06:16 ◼   ► - And that's not on the dock anywhere.

01:06:18 ◼   ► - No, I don't have any Twitter apps on home screens

01:06:21 ◼   ► or whatever, like I just don't do that.

01:06:24 ◼   ► And I will say I'm disappointed

01:06:27 ◼   ► in the Mac version of Tweetbot.

01:06:30 ◼   ► I feel like the iOS version is doing a lot more cool stuff

01:06:34 ◼   ► than the Mac version.

01:06:35 ◼   ► - Yeah, because it's the old version,

01:06:37 ◼   ► like the Mac is still stuck on Tweetbot.

01:06:40 ◼   ► - And I don't understand why,

01:06:41 ◼   ► 'cause it's a subscription app now, right?

01:06:44 ◼   ► - Yeah, they should, I--

01:06:46 ◼   ► - The Mac app is still a separate purchase, I think.

01:06:49 ◼   ► - Huh.

01:06:50 ◼   ► I don't think it's gotten like lumped in.

01:06:52 ◼   ► - It's not up to speed with the subscription plan yet.

01:06:54 ◼   ► - It's very peculiar to me 'cause it's like,

01:06:56 ◼   ► I feel like they're adding loads of stuff to the iOS app.

01:07:01 ◼   ► And so I just kind of wonder why they're not touching

01:07:04 ◼   ► the Mac app at all.

01:07:05 ◼   ► Like I just, I don't know, it's just like strange.

01:07:07 ◼   ► 'Cause like it feels like there's stuff being added

01:07:09 ◼   ► to the iOS app, which is like,

01:07:11 ◼   ► hey, we've made a nice new design for the profile.

01:07:14 ◼   ► It's like, great, this is nice, but I didn't need it.

01:07:15 ◼   ► I would kind of like you to maybe do something

01:07:17 ◼   ► with the Mac app, but hey, I'm gonna get that man

01:07:19 ◼   ► in the business. So this is kind of where I am my iPad mini. I feel like I got off that one pretty

01:07:24 ◼   ► well. I knew the thing that I knew was going to happen happened outside of that. I feel pretty good.

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01:09:04 ◼   ► - Okay, also an iPad mini?

01:09:06 ◼   ► - Yes.

01:09:07 ◼   ► - Okay, what is this background?

01:09:09 ◼   ► - It is the dark theme Monterey background.

01:09:12 ◼   ► I like my iPad to feel like it's a real computer,

01:09:14 ◼   ► So I give it a Mac OS wallpaper sometimes.

01:09:16 ◼   ► - Wasn't your--

01:09:17 ◼   ► - Oh yeah, I use an iPad mini for that.

01:09:19 ◼   ► - It wasn't your whole thing about the iPad mini

01:09:21 ◼   ► that you were happy it didn't make you feel that way

01:09:24 ◼   ► about it being a real computer?

01:09:26 ◼   ► - I'm there, but it's not there yet.

01:09:28 ◼   ► You know, coaching it along.

01:09:30 ◼   ► - Motor Trend.

01:09:31 ◼   ► - Yeah, I got sucked into some like car reality show.

01:09:34 ◼   ► And so it's there in the Apple firm.

01:09:35 ◼   ► - Oh, what's that?

01:09:36 ◼   ► What's the car reality show?

01:09:37 ◼   ► - What is the name of it?

01:09:38 ◼   ► I'll find it for you.

01:09:39 ◼   ► - Motor Trend.

01:09:40 ◼   ► - Motor Trend. - New cars.

01:09:43 ◼   ► "Kobo Rakuten."

01:09:46 ◼   ► "Rakuten Kobo."

01:09:50 ◼   ► "Rakuten.

01:09:51 ◼   ► Why?"

01:09:52 ◼   ► I have an old Kindle Oasis with the push buttons, because that's the way you should turn pages

01:09:58 ◼   ► in an ebook reader, and one of the buttons has died on it, and it's way out of warranty,

01:10:04 ◼   ► and this was happening about the time that our friend Jason was writing about the Kobo

01:10:08 ◼   ► readers, how great they are.

01:10:10 ◼   ► So I bought one and like did DRM things and all my books are on the Kobo and I've been

01:10:17 ◼   ► I bought a couple books.

01:10:20 ◼   ► It's weird I'm not completely sold on it yet.

01:10:23 ◼   ► I feel weird that like what happens when I want to read a book that's not available on

01:10:27 ◼   ► Kobo that's only on Amazon?

01:10:29 ◼   ► That hasn't happened yet but maybe it could I don't know.

01:10:32 ◼   ► So that used to be the Kindle app but now that I'm reading on a Kobo this is the Kobo

01:10:36 ◼   ► books app in its place.

01:10:38 ◼   ► What is the Kobo?

01:10:39 ◼   ► the icon is horrific.

01:10:40 ◼   ► -Tobu, what is the Kobo app like?

01:10:42 ◼   ► -It's okay. -Okay.

01:10:44 ◼   ► -It's, um, I mean, it's, I think it's very similar to the Kindle app.

01:10:48 ◼   ► Like, it's pretty basic, but fine.

01:10:51 ◼   ► -You have a very, like, straight-laced home screen.

01:10:55 ◼   ► Everything's in rows. -Mm-hmm.

01:10:58 ◼   ► -Yeah. -You know?

01:10:59 ◼   ► -Mm. -It's like three widgets, two app rows.

01:11:02 ◼   ► -Mm-hmm. And this is the only screen.

01:11:04 ◼   ► -Yeah, I noticed that. There's a lot of light blue.

01:11:08 ◼   ► There's a lot of light blue icons in the world.

01:11:10 ◼   ► - There's a lot of blue.

01:11:11 ◼   ► - And I think it looks nice with the purple wallpaper.

01:11:14 ◼   ► - It's not a very exciting home screen.

01:11:16 ◼   ► I think the most exciting thing on this home screen

01:11:18 ◼   ► is the Bible.

01:11:19 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:11:21 ◼   ► - I was gonna say that, you beat me to it.

01:11:23 ◼   ► - At least you have a chance to read, you know,

01:11:28 ◼   ► the holy word on this home screen.

01:11:30 ◼   ► - I think this came up when we did my iPhone as well.

01:11:33 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's never gonna stop, I'm sorry,

01:11:35 ◼   ► and I apologize for everyone.

01:11:37 ◼   ► - It's quite the range, you know, on the same row.

01:11:41 ◼   ► You go from Apple TV and Hulu to the Bible.

01:11:44 ◼   ► - It is. - That's right.

01:11:45 ◼   ► - In context with other things is it really,

01:11:48 ◼   ► it's like it feels like nothing else is important enough.

01:11:51 ◼   ► But I guess, you know, someone's gonna get to YouTube.

01:11:53 ◼   ► It's just like.

01:11:54 ◼   ► The reader icon though, you chose that blue.

01:12:00 ◼   ► - Yes.

01:12:00 ◼   ► - The brown looked bad against the wallpaper.

01:12:05 ◼   ► And the red made it look very confusing with good links,

01:12:10 ◼   ► which is right next to it.

01:12:11 ◼   ► And so blue it was.

01:12:13 ◼   ► - I think we've spoken about this before,

01:12:14 ◼   ► but Todoist has no real good app icons.

01:12:17 ◼   ► - Nope.

01:12:18 ◼   ► - They're all just like, which one will you accept?

01:12:21 ◼   ► - Yeah, I accept this one.

01:12:23 ◼   ► I don't like the solid red one

01:12:24 ◼   ► 'cause the badge kind of blends into it.

01:12:26 ◼   ► And so mine is white with the red checks.

01:12:29 ◼   ► It's not great, but I feel like

01:12:30 ◼   ► it's one of the least offensive ones.

01:12:32 ◼   ► What is the mototron show you're watching?

01:12:36 ◼   ► - Oh, I didn't even actually look.

01:12:37 ◼   ► Let me see.

01:12:38 ◼   ► I don't actually have my iPad out here.

01:12:39 ◼   ► - There's something I need to ask you about.

01:12:41 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:12:42 ◼   ► - On this home screen,

01:12:43 ◼   ► but it's not about the home screen itself.

01:12:46 ◼   ► It's about the photo that is shown on the home screen.

01:12:49 ◼   ► There's Mary picturing in this photo.

01:12:52 ◼   ► She's making a funny face.

01:12:55 ◼   ► She's sitting at a desk.

01:12:56 ◼   ► On this desk, there's a pair of Pikachu headphones.

01:13:01 ◼   ► Whoa!

01:13:02 ◼   ► Can you provide some context here?

01:13:06 ◼   ► Why do you keep these things from us?

01:13:08 ◼   ► You know we wanna know if you've got Pikachu headphones.

01:13:09 ◼   ► Why do you have Pikachu headphones?

01:13:12 ◼   ► Our youngest child is very into Pokemon.

01:13:15 ◼   ► And for his birthday or something last year,

01:13:17 ◼   ► we got him some Pokemon headphones.

01:13:20 ◼   ► So this photo's from last year

01:13:22 ◼   ► when Mary was teaching remotely,

01:13:24 ◼   ► the beginning of the pandemic.

01:13:26 ◼   ► And she also sees she has a webcam and like a light.

01:13:29 ◼   ► This is kind of like where she talked from, right? Yes. Yeah. Um,

01:13:33 ◼   ► like a real like that. I rolled that work bench in for her to use as a desk.

01:13:37 ◼   ► Pikachu have funds, man. So you keep these things from us. Yeah.

01:13:41 ◼   ► Mary is the best thing on these homes. It's true. Mary and the Bible. I think,

01:13:46 ◼   ► um, a single, a single test flight beta and it's overcast.

01:13:52 ◼   ► Yeah. I don't, I have other betas, but they're all on my iPhone.

01:13:56 ◼   ► Like I don't do any time tracking on the iPad.

01:14:00 ◼   ► So Timery's not there.

01:14:02 ◼   ► I think Slack is a beta, but it doesn't show in the doc.

01:14:06 ◼   ► - Home. - Okay.

01:14:08 ◼   ► Home, yeah.

01:14:09 ◼   ► - Just like, what do you need the app icon for?

01:14:14 ◼   ► - I have, we have a lot of HomeKit stuff going on now.

01:14:17 ◼   ► - Okay. - And the iPad is actually,

01:14:19 ◼   ► the iPad Mini is kind of a nice,

01:14:20 ◼   ► if I use it mostly like in the evenings,

01:14:23 ◼   ► And on my iPhone on the Today View,

01:14:27 ◼   ► I have several widgets that are like shortcuts

01:14:30 ◼   ► that trigger HomeKit stuff.

01:14:32 ◼   ► But on the iPad, I find it really easy to just open it

01:14:34 ◼   ► and like find the button.

01:14:35 ◼   ► So there it is. - But like not

01:14:36 ◼   ► Control Center though?

01:14:37 ◼   ► Like you don't, it doesn't work for you?

01:14:39 ◼   ► - Oh, it just, I don't know, it's just right there.

01:14:42 ◼   ► It seemed easy enough.

01:14:43 ◼   ► - I know you just, you seem to be refusing to tell us

01:14:48 ◼   ► what this Motor Trend thing is.

01:14:49 ◼   ► You keep saying, "I'm gonna go find out."

01:14:51 ◼   ► - Yeah, there's something about it.

01:14:52 ◼   ► and then you just stay quiet about it.

01:14:55 ◼   ► And then I ask you again.

01:14:56 ◼   ► - 'Cause it's a little embarrassing.

01:14:58 ◼   ► - Yeah, see, I knew it was,

01:14:59 ◼   ► and that's why I need you to tell me what it is

01:15:01 ◼   ► so then you can live it.

01:15:04 ◼   ► - There's something, you know what bothers me here?

01:15:09 ◼   ► There's something shady about this home screen.

01:15:12 ◼   ► It feels like you're hiding something.

01:15:14 ◼   ► This is the home screen of someone who's hiding something.

01:15:17 ◼   ► - Wow.

01:15:18 ◼   ► - Either a page or something else in the app library.

01:15:21 ◼   ► This is the home.

01:15:22 ◼   ► This goes back to your mysterious character

01:15:27 ◼   ► that we mentioned a while back.

01:15:29 ◼   ► There's something else on this home screen,

01:15:32 ◼   ► like either in the today column,

01:15:34 ◼   ► you must have some really embarrassing widget in there,

01:15:38 ◼   ► or something else in the app library

01:15:40 ◼   ► that you're not showing.

01:15:41 ◼   ► This is a home screen that you prepared for this episode.

01:15:46 ◼   ► - It's really not,

01:15:47 ◼   ► or I would have hidden the Motor Trend one.

01:15:50 ◼   ► - It's really that I don't use my iPad Mini

01:15:52 ◼   ► for almost anything more than what you see here.

01:15:56 ◼   ► Like occasionally I will open something in Google Sheets

01:15:59 ◼   ► or like a text editor, like I have iA Writer

01:16:03 ◼   ► and a couple others installed.

01:16:05 ◼   ► But this iPad is mostly like reading and social media stuff.

01:16:10 ◼   ► And so this really is like,

01:16:12 ◼   ► if I was gonna do a second screen,

01:16:13 ◼   ► I don't even know, it would look like mics.

01:16:15 ◼   ► I'd be like, I'd have some widgets,

01:16:16 ◼   ► but I have no other apps that I use

01:16:18 ◼   ► on a regular basis on this thing

01:16:19 ◼   ► other than this grid.

01:16:21 ◼   ► Federico, I reckon it's the content

01:16:23 ◼   ► inside of these applications,

01:16:25 ◼   ► was where the real secrets are.

01:16:26 ◼   ► Like what's in good links, you know?

01:16:28 ◼   ► I think, yeah, because otherwise this looks like

01:16:32 ◼   ► one of those marketing home screens from apple.com.

01:16:35 ◼   ► Oh look, it's perfect.

01:16:36 ◼   ► This person has a calendar, a picture of his wife,

01:16:40 ◼   ► the Bible, and Apple Music, and Apple TV.

01:16:43 ◼   ► It's like, yeah, okay.

01:16:45 ◼   ► When it is, it's like, you know like the mob,

01:16:48 ◼   ► they like buy a store and then they keep the shop front the same right so it's

01:16:52 ◼   ► like it's like you know it's like a fake store whatever that's what this is

01:16:56 ◼   ► it's like all of the all of the action is going on inside of these applications

01:17:01 ◼   ► but like out on the front the front it all seems like just hunky-dory you know

01:17:05 ◼   ► it's pretty hunky-dory yeah it seems like it I'm taking music see you listen

01:17:10 ◼   ► do you listen to music on your iPad or like what is what are you doing I do so

01:17:16 ◼   ► I have a Bluetooth speaker set up in the in the garage and so I'll use it out there from working on something

01:17:22 ◼   ► and also use that speaker sometimes for

01:17:25 ◼   ► Apple finish plus if I don't use my AirPods for whatever reason so yeah the music it doesn't get a ton of use

01:17:31 ◼   ► But I felt like it was enough to put on the iPad same with overcast all right

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01:19:40 ◼   ► Federico Vittucci's iPad Pro. The first thing I was struck by was I was

01:19:46 ◼   ► gonna say "hey how do you get the text to be so small?" and then I realized oh no

01:19:51 ◼   ► wait this is a bigger iPad. That's why like there's so much more space in the

01:19:56 ◼   ► shortcuts widget and stuff like that. So I mean I'm struck by a bunch of things

01:20:01 ◼   ► so I'm just gonna, Stephen if you're happy I'm just gonna start picking some

01:20:04 ◼   ► of these apart. Okay. What is share menu? Share menu is a... well first of all you

01:20:10 ◼   ► obviously do not read MacStories Weekly which pains me greatly but still. I have

01:20:18 ◼   ► MacStories Weekly goes into my RSS client and when I have some time I'll go

01:20:22 ◼   ► through and read it. I don't read everything because MacStories Weekly is

01:20:25 ◼   ► a lot of incredible information for a low low price but sometimes it's more

01:20:30 ◼   ► information than I want to consume at any point.

01:20:34 ◼   ► Share menu is my replacement for the shortcut integration with the share sheet.

01:20:39 ◼   ► I don't know if you remember how Workflow used to be, that you had...

01:20:44 ◼   ► If it helps, I do remember you talking about us on Mac stories, so I do...

01:20:48 ◼   ► No, sorry, on App Stories. That's the name of your show, right?

01:20:51 ◼   ► Okay.

01:20:51 ◼   ► So, you know, at least I got that part of the Federico Vittucci Empire.

01:20:55 ◼   ► Thank you.

01:20:56 ◼   ► So Workflow used to have a run Workflow extension in the share sheet,

01:21:00 ◼   ► that when you tapped it, it showed you a grid

01:21:01 ◼   ► of your shortcuts with colors.

01:21:04 ◼   ► I miss that because now you get all the individual shortcuts

01:21:07 ◼   ► in the share sheet.

01:21:08 ◼   ► And I just prefer to have a single place

01:21:11 ◼   ► where I can trigger all of my shortcuts

01:21:13 ◼   ► and see their colors,

01:21:16 ◼   ► which by default shortcuts doesn't do anymore.

01:21:18 ◼   ► So I built a shortcut to run other shortcuts.

01:21:22 ◼   ► And usually I trigger it from my share sheet.

01:21:26 ◼   ► However, I also built Share Menu

01:21:28 ◼   ► so that I can use it as a widget from the home screen.

01:21:32 ◼   ► And you may say, but there's no sharesheet there.

01:21:34 ◼   ► In that case, it takes whatever is in my clipboard.

01:21:38 ◼   ► So the same extensions that I see in the sharesheet,

01:21:42 ◼   ► I tap this shortcut and I basically run another shortcut.

01:21:47 ◼   ► There's a list in alphabetical order that says

01:21:50 ◼   ► up to abuse or weekly link or Apple frames.

01:21:55 ◼   ► And whatever is in my clipboard

01:21:57 ◼   ► becomes the input for another shortcut.

01:21:59 ◼   ► It's just a launcher, basically.

01:22:01 ◼   ► It's a launcher for other shortcuts.

01:22:03 ◼   ► - This was the second screenshot that you shared of us.

01:22:07 ◼   ► I think you shared one earlier.

01:22:08 ◼   ► I don't know what changed,

01:22:10 ◼   ► but the second one has helped me understand something

01:22:13 ◼   ► I didn't understand about the first one,

01:22:15 ◼   ► which is that you have music at a picture-in-picture thing.

01:22:18 ◼   ► I was like, what is that window?

01:22:20 ◼   ► Just like not in the grid.

01:22:22 ◼   ► How are you doing that?

01:22:26 ◼   ► So this is going to be an article on Mac Stories at some point soon, I hope.

01:22:29 ◼   ► He won't read it.

01:22:30 ◼   ► Yeah, I won't read it, so I might as well just mention it to you here.

01:22:34 ◼   ► It's this new thing called Floating Player, and it's exactly what it is.

01:22:41 ◼   ► It's custom picture-in-picture for what is playing in music.

01:22:46 ◼   ► This is meant to solve a very specific problem, which is I do not like to reach out to Control

01:22:52 ◼   ► Center to see what's playing.

01:22:54 ◼   ► Because I guess you can slide this off to the side, right?

01:22:57 ◼   ► Yes, but in this case you may see how I kept the bottom right corner of my iPad home screen

01:23:05 ◼   ► empty so that floating player can sort of be tucked in there and it doesn't bother anything

01:23:13 ◼   ► else, like it doesn't float on top of anything else because that spot of my home screen is

01:23:17 ◼   ► empty.

01:23:19 ◼   ► I wish that it was properly aligned with the rest of the widgets, but the picture-in-picture thing snaps to other corners of the screen.

01:23:29 ◼   ► But yes, this is an iPhone utility that you can install on the iPad, you run it in compatibility mode, it's fine.

01:23:37 ◼   ► But it's one of the things that has been made possible by iOS 15, because developers can now do custom picture-in-picture in iOS 15.

01:23:45 ◼   ► And this developer figured out how to do basically a now playing screen,

01:23:50 ◼   ► but it runs in picture in picture.

01:23:53 ◼   ► And you can skip play and pause. It's nice.

01:23:56 ◼   ► And it shows you the album art. So that's cool.

01:23:59 ◼   ► And this is pulling from Apple's music app, though, right? That's cool.

01:24:05 ◼   ► Yeah, whatever is playing in the music app.

01:24:08 ◼   ► Or in my case, I use Marvis as my main music player,

01:24:12 ◼   ► because I like to scrabble.

01:24:14 ◼   ► I like to scrabble, man.

01:24:15 ◼   ► -He's still scrabbling? -I need to scrabble.

01:24:17 ◼   ► -He's still scrabbling! -I'm still scrabbling.

01:24:18 ◼   ► I'm scrabbling all the time.

01:24:20 ◼   ► I'm all day scrabbling.

01:24:21 ◼   ► -That's what I do. -Every day I'm scrabbling.

01:24:23 ◼   ► What -- Have you had any interesting data

01:24:26 ◼   ► presented to you from your scrabbling ways?

01:24:29 ◼   ► Well, okay, so I -- Yeah.

01:24:33 ◼   ► I absolutely love the Last.fm reports that they do.

01:24:37 ◼   ► They do weekly and monthly reports

01:24:39 ◼   ► that are actually way more useful than whatever Apple is doing with the Apple Music Replay thing.

01:24:46 ◼   ► The Last.fm reports are actually cool. I love them. I'm having a bit of a problem,

01:24:52 ◼   ► like, as we speak. Like, this morning I wasted two hours. Context. This whole Last.fm thing started

01:25:01 ◼   ► because I was following the advice of friend of the show, friend of Mac's story, Jason Tate,

01:25:06 ◼   ► of Chorus FM. Chorus FM is my favorite music website. If you are about my age, you may remember

01:25:13 ◼   ► a website called absolutepunk.net from back in the day. Chorus FM is the new absolute punk.

01:25:21 ◼   ► If you were into the whole emo punk rock scene in the mid-2000s, you know what I'm talking about.

01:25:27 ◼   ► Jason is still running the website, but it's now called Chorus FM. Jason turned me on to Last.fm.

01:25:35 ◼   ► Jason also built this very cool project which we linked on Mac Stories. It's a Raspberry Pi

01:25:42 ◼   ► connected to a very small like four inch display that sits on his desk and shows him all the time

01:25:50 ◼   ► whatever he's playing on Apple Music at the moment. He built this with the Last.fm API

01:25:58 ◼   ► so that it shows him, like, real-time Scrobbles.

01:26:02 ◼   ► And so I ordered the parts to also build this Last.fm,

01:26:09 ◼   ► like, my real-time Scrobble display.

01:26:11 ◼   ► -Scrobble bot. -I got a Raspberry Pi Zero,

01:26:15 ◼   ► like, what's it called?

01:26:16 ◼   ► Raspberry Pi Zero, W. W stands for Wi-Fi.

01:26:21 ◼   ► And the screen --

01:26:22 ◼   ► Actually, Jon shipped the screen to me from the U.S.

01:26:27 ◼   ► I have all the parts, but my Raspberry Pi Zero is not connecting to Wi-Fi.

01:26:33 ◼   ► It just doesn't want to do it. I followed all the tutorials, all the things.

01:26:37 ◼   ► It just doesn't want to connect to my Wi-Fi.

01:26:39 ◼   ► I wasted two hours this morning trying to get it on the Wi-Fi, but nothing.

01:26:44 ◼   ► Just not anywhere.

01:26:45 ◼   ► I don't know anything about this thing, but what I'll ask is,

01:26:48 ◼   ► does it support 5 GHz Wi-Fi networks?

01:26:52 ◼   ► No, but I turned it off.

01:26:54 ◼   ► I already knew there was going to be a potential problem,

01:26:56 ◼   ► So I'm running my network on the 2.4.

01:27:00 ◼   ► I followed all the online tutorials.

01:27:02 ◼   ► It just doesn't want to do it.

01:27:04 ◼   ► So, hey, if you had this kind of issue

01:27:06 ◼   ► and you have a Pi Zero W with an Orbi network by Netgear,

01:27:11 ◼   ► hey, let me know on Twitter, maybe.

01:27:13 ◼   ► Anyway, Last.fm, very useful.

01:27:15 ◼   ► I love it.

01:27:16 ◼   ► I'm a pro subscriber.

01:27:17 ◼   ► I listen to Marvis, which is also in my dock

01:27:20 ◼   ► right there with the blue icon.

01:27:22 ◼   ► Scrubblin'.

01:27:23 ◼   ► That's one of my favorite moments of this show ever.

01:27:27 ◼   ► When you admitted to being back on last FM, it was just like incredible.

01:27:33 ◼   ► I feel like we've got to ask the thing that everyone wants to know.

01:27:37 ◼   ► Okay.

01:27:38 ◼   ► What is weak board?

01:27:39 ◼   ► Oh, that's a good task.

01:27:41 ◼   ► That's good task.

01:27:42 ◼   ► Okay.

01:27:44 ◼   ► Interesting.

01:27:44 ◼   ► They have the Kanban, the Kanban view mode.

01:27:47 ◼   ► And, uh, and I like it because it's, um, three days at a time is our, like to

01:27:53 ◼   ► think about like my schedule. Apple does four days in the calendar widget above.

01:28:00 ◼   ► I would prefer to choose like three days like just show me the three the next

01:28:05 ◼   ► three days. That would be really nice if you could just like look at those two

01:28:08 ◼   ► widgets and they were like in sync. Match India! Yes, yes! Federico what you have right

01:28:15 ◼   ► now would be so upsetting to me. I know. If I had to look at this all the time.

01:28:22 ◼   ► matching like that? I try not to care but again maybe someone else has made the calendar

01:28:31 ◼   ► widget that I want. Basically what I want is the Apple widget because everything about

01:28:36 ◼   ► it works for me except let me choose the number of days. Let me choose that. Three days. Today,

01:28:44 ◼   ► tomorrow, day after tomorrow. That's it. That's all I want but they won't let me do it. So

01:28:51 ◼   ► While we're on our good task thing, I'm finding out interesting things about you. Just like

01:28:58 ◼   ► looking at this list. We've got like, "T's YouTube watch later system." So like these

01:29:05 ◼   ► patented, trademarked, copyright, Federico Fattucci Twitter teases. They are pre-planned

01:29:11 ◼   ► and scheduled and everything.

01:29:12 ◼   ► Look at the one above it. "Start writing Switch Frame."

01:29:16 ◼   ► That's a Nintendo Switch thing, surely.

01:29:18 ◼   ► It's like, yeah, yeah.

01:29:20 ◼   ► Apple frames or the Nintendo switch or something we are doing next week on Mac stories that we are going to announce on Friday

01:29:27 ◼   ► Well, it's overdue by a few hours to get started announced at the announcement

01:29:31 ◼   ► No, I mean the thing the thing I've already written. It's the announcement that's going out on Friday

01:29:36 ◼   ► Let's go through some of the apps on the dock because you use some apps that people may not use you've got Safari app store

01:29:44 ◼   ► spark files

01:29:47 ◼   ► Yes

01:29:49 ◼   ► Working copy. Yes, which is the text editor that you work use with git

01:29:54 ◼   ► Yeah

01:29:57 ◼   ► For the git commits and all that jargon. Yeah. Yeah good tasks. We just mentioned

01:30:02 ◼   ► Yes, the next one is I forget the name of a base the fast entry for Apple reminders, right? Yes. Remind me fast

01:30:09 ◼   ► Yes, that's the name. Oh look, it's called that

01:30:12 ◼   ► It's called that but it's a funny. It's a funny lovely lovely

01:30:18 ◼   ► Don't doubt that either. Name's still funny.

01:30:20 ◼   ► Great person.

01:30:21 ◼   ► Name is still funny.

01:30:22 ◼   ► Great person.

01:30:23 ◼   ► Name...

01:30:24 ◼   ► Look, I love when apps own what they do.

01:30:29 ◼   ► Like imagine if Timery was called Track Your Time.

01:30:34 ◼   ► Better than the terrible toggle app lets you.

01:30:37 ◼   ► That's the full name of Timery.

01:30:41 ◼   ► It's a very...

01:30:42 ◼   ► What is this?

01:30:43 ◼   ► Remind me faster.

01:30:44 ◼   ► I guess.

01:30:45 ◼   ► Yeah, sure.

01:30:46 ◼   ► What does it do?

01:30:47 ◼   ► Timery, music, what's the one next to music?

01:30:52 ◼   ► - Liar?

01:30:53 ◼   ► - Marvis for the Scrobbles.

01:30:55 ◼   ► - It does look like liar,

01:30:56 ◼   ► that's what I thought it was at first.

01:30:58 ◼   ► Messages, just smack dab in the middle.

01:31:02 ◼   ► - That's such a weird place, I mean,

01:31:03 ◼   ► I guess I understand 'cause it's next to Discord,

01:31:05 ◼   ► but like, it's just weird to me to have messages

01:31:08 ◼   ► like so far in, but it's just a personal preference thing.

01:31:11 ◼   ► You know, I just always have it towards an end.

01:31:13 ◼   ► - It's the little messaging corner.

01:31:15 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:31:16 ◼   ► Yeah, then you have Discord, photos, reader with Apollo.

01:31:22 ◼   ► What is this brain icon?

01:31:25 ◼   ► Yes.

01:31:26 ◼   ► This is some big brain stuff going on right here.

01:31:30 ◼   ► So this is an icon.

01:31:32 ◼   ► Big brain.

01:31:33 ◼   ► So what if I told you that I made a shortcut?

01:31:36 ◼   ► What, you?

01:31:37 ◼   ► No.

01:31:38 ◼   ► That lets you make icons based on SF symbols.

01:31:44 ◼   ► Anyway, I get this is an icon that I made myself.

01:31:47 ◼   ► Can I have that shortcut, please?

01:31:48 ◼   ► Yes, please.

01:31:49 ◼   ► Ah, now you want it, huh?

01:31:51 ◼   ► Yes.

01:31:52 ◼   ► Because now I know what it is.

01:31:53 ◼   ► I couldn't have wanted it before I knew what it was.

01:31:55 ◼   ► As soon as I found out what it was, I wanted it.

01:31:57 ◼   ► Like, what's the issue here?

01:31:59 ◼   ► Anyway, in this case, this icon is used for a shortcut that

01:32:05 ◼   ► is called capture.

01:32:07 ◼   ► When I tap it, it opens--

01:32:09 ◼   ► so this is the obsidian corner.

01:32:10 ◼   ► So this, I thought you were saying

01:32:12 ◼   ► that this was the shortcut to create the icon.

01:32:14 ◼   ► No, you made this.

01:32:16 ◼   ► - No, no, no.

01:32:17 ◼   ► The icon was made with that shortcut.

01:32:20 ◼   ► - Right, I want that one.

01:32:21 ◼   ► - And I used it, okay.

01:32:23 ◼   ► I used it for an Obsidian, to launch Obsidian

01:32:28 ◼   ► and trigger a command called On My Mind

01:32:31 ◼   ► that lets me save a quick thought into my dashboard.

01:32:34 ◼   ► - Right.

01:32:35 ◼   ► - It's all it does.

01:32:36 ◼   ► It launches Obsidian and it displays an input field

01:32:40 ◼   ► to type some text.

01:32:41 ◼   ► And when I hit Done, the text is prepended

01:32:46 ◼   ► to a section of my dashboard,

01:32:48 ◼   ► meaning it goes to the top of the list.

01:32:50 ◼   ► So it's the latest thought that I had that is,

01:32:54 ◼   ► well, on my mind, that's what the section is called.

01:32:57 ◼   ► - This is like, I could imagine if Apple were writing this,

01:33:00 ◼   ► it would be appended to top or appended to bottom, like.

01:33:03 ◼   ► - Yes, appended to top, appended to top, yes.

01:33:08 ◼   ► That's exactly what they would call it.

01:33:10 ◼   ► Look, it's not prepended. It's appended at the top.

01:33:13 ◼   ► It's like...

01:33:14 ◼   ► Indent left and indent right.

01:33:16 ◼   ► Indent left.

01:33:17 ◼   ► Oh, God.

01:33:18 ◼   ► Yeah, sure.

01:33:20 ◼   ► Then there's Obsidian.

01:33:22 ◼   ► And the next icon is also made with the shortcut

01:33:26 ◼   ► that I mentioned before.

01:33:27 ◼   ► And this is another Obsidian launcher

01:33:31 ◼   ► that just opens my dashboard.

01:33:33 ◼   ► It opens my dashboard note in preview mode

01:33:36 ◼   ► So that I see all my fancy sections and rich links and all the things that I've saved.

01:33:42 ◼   ► You're using my favorite Tweetbot icon.

01:33:45 ◼   ► The New Year icon. So good.

01:33:47 ◼   ► It's a very good one.

01:33:49 ◼   ► And then shortcuts.

01:33:50 ◼   ► And then what is in your app library there?

01:33:54 ◼   ► I know you would ask about that.

01:33:56 ◼   ► ExpressVPN is the top left one.

01:33:58 ◼   ► ExpressVPN, I use it for HBO Max and Showtime

01:34:03 ◼   ► because I want to watch Yellow Jackets and Showtime.

01:34:05 ◼   ► So that's what I'm using it for.

01:34:07 ◼   ► - Is that some kind of game?

01:34:08 ◼   ► - Sofa, I think that's an alternative icon for Sofa,

01:34:11 ◼   ► the media tracker.

01:34:13 ◼   ► - Ah, okay.

01:34:14 ◼   ► - The megaphone icon is an internal Mac Stories application

01:34:18 ◼   ► called ReleaseBot, made by the one true son, Finn Voorhees,

01:34:23 ◼   ► to keep track of updates from the App Store.

01:34:29 ◼   ► So we track app updates using ReleaseBot,

01:34:33 ◼   ► And yeah, I love it.

01:34:36 ◼   ► It's a great app, but it's only for us.

01:34:38 ◼   ► So what are you using craft for?

01:34:41 ◼   ► It's a shared Max stories documentation and show notes with John.

01:34:45 ◼   ► We don't use, we haven't used Google Docs in like a year at this point.

01:34:49 ◼   ► I would love to use craft for our show, but it just won't work when we're

01:34:53 ◼   ► recording. Like it's just, cause you know what we're like,

01:34:56 ◼   ► we're moving stuff left, right and center all over the place.

01:35:00 ◼   ► Look, I think you think craft is slower than it actually is.

01:35:07 ◼   ► It's not as immediate as Google Docs.

01:35:09 ◼   ► I think I know based on a test that I did like a year ago,

01:35:14 ◼   ► unless it's gotten any better.

01:35:16 ◼   ► I think it has gotten better, a lot better.

01:35:18 ◼   ► I'm sure it's always getting better.

01:35:21 ◼   ► But what I want is what I have, which is instant.

01:35:24 ◼   ► And no one can do that, it seems like.

01:35:28 ◼   ► Yeah, but Kraft is nicer than Google Docs, so...

01:35:31 ◼   ► I mean, sometimes.

01:35:32 ◼   ► I mean, it's also fine for App Stories,

01:35:34 ◼   ► because we're not recording App Stories live.

01:35:37 ◼   ► There isn't a lot of like,

01:35:39 ◼   ► "Oh, we need to change this in real time.

01:35:41 ◼   ► We can just stop and change it and start over."

01:35:44 ◼   ► This is the iPad home screen

01:35:46 ◼   ► of somebody who's hiding something.

01:35:48 ◼   ► No, no, no, you cannot just use my...

01:35:52 ◼   ► You cannot use my line on me.

01:35:54 ◼   ► There's no apps except what's in the doc.

01:35:57 ◼   ► - Exactly, that's what you can do on an iPad Pro

01:35:59 ◼   ► on a real computer.

01:36:00 ◼   ► You can put all your apps in the dock

01:36:02 ◼   ► and summon the dock from anywhere.

01:36:04 ◼   ► - I mean, I can put as many apps in the dock

01:36:06 ◼   ► on my iPad Mini and then just can't launch them.

01:36:08 ◼   ► I can't launch them anymore, but I can have them there.

01:36:11 ◼   ► - They're tiny dots.

01:36:12 ◼   ► (laughs)

01:36:13 ◼   ► - I can just use the Apple Pencil to launch all my apps.

01:36:16 ◼   ► - The thing that really,

01:36:18 ◼   ► I see this in your iPhone screenshots too,

01:36:20 ◼   ► is that you use light mode.

01:36:21 ◼   ► - Oh yeah, I really don't like dark mode.

01:36:25 ◼   ► I use dark mode on my phone all the time,

01:36:27 ◼   ► and on my iPad I use it all the time,

01:36:29 ◼   ► but on the Mac I don't like it.

01:36:31 ◼   ► But you just seem like you'd be a dark mode person.

01:36:34 ◼   ► - No, it's too low contrast for me.

01:36:37 ◼   ► And dark mode, I've tried to use it,

01:36:41 ◼   ► but I've done like, okay,

01:36:43 ◼   ► I'm gonna go a full day with dark mode.

01:36:46 ◼   ► And at the end of the day, I feel nervous about it.

01:36:49 ◼   ► Like, my phone is not my phone anymore.

01:36:52 ◼   ► I just cannot live with it.

01:36:54 ◼   ► It's too low contrast and everything is dark and I feel like I need to squint all the time to read text.

01:37:01 ◼   ► I really don't like it.

01:37:02 ◼   ► I don't know how Myke does it, honestly.

01:37:04 ◼   ► I'm 100% dark mode 100% of the time on 100% of my devices.

01:37:09 ◼   ► Light mode is just too bright.

01:37:11 ◼   ► I mean, are you still 100% brightness guy as well?

01:37:17 ◼   ► No, no, I switched to auto brightness a few years ago and I caved.

01:37:21 ◼   ► I feel like your eyes will ultimately thank you for that.

01:37:24 ◼   ► Because I was thinking about this recently.

01:37:26 ◼   ► Also for battery life.

01:37:27 ◼   ► Yeah, that too.

01:37:28 ◼   ► I was thinking about this recently with the iPad,

01:37:30 ◼   ► like in it having like a million nits

01:37:32 ◼   ► and was worrying about your eyes.

01:37:35 ◼   ► So I'm pleased that you're not searing

01:37:37 ◼   ► your retinas with this.

01:37:40 ◼   ► Do you want to know where the wallpaper is from?

01:37:42 ◼   ► I assume you made it from a shortcut.

01:37:44 ◼   ► No, I wish that I could do that sort of gradient

01:37:48 ◼   ► with the shortcut.

01:37:49 ◼   ► There's a bunch of colors in here that I cannot do.

01:37:52 ◼   ► I don't think you can do that kind of gradient

01:37:54 ◼   ► with CSS in HTML.

01:37:55 ◼   ► If you can, please let me know.

01:37:57 ◼   ► And I can work on it.

01:38:00 ◼   ► I stole this wallpaper.

01:38:01 ◼   ► Where from?

01:38:03 ◼   ► From Apple.

01:38:04 ◼   ► Wait.

01:38:05 ◼   ► It's like the big wallpaper heist.

01:38:09 ◼   ► So I recently went to the Manage My Apple ID page.

01:38:17 ◼   ► And I noticed that there was an animation that I really liked.

01:38:22 ◼   ► It was like multiple colored dots moving around the Apple logo.

01:38:26 ◼   ► And I thought, "Oh, those are some nice colors.

01:38:29 ◼   ► I want to steal that graphic."

01:38:32 ◼   ► And so I inspected the source, like a real hacker.

01:38:37 ◼   ► And I realized that the dot animation

01:38:40 ◼   ► was actually some fancy CSS effect

01:38:44 ◼   ► that Apple is doing on top of an image.

01:38:48 ◼   ► This is the image that they use.

01:38:50 ◼   ► - Oh yeah, I see that.

01:38:53 ◼   ► That's nice, that animation.

01:38:54 ◼   ► This is an appleid.apple.com.

01:38:57 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:38:58 ◼   ► - This looks like a design for WWDC

01:39:01 ◼   ► that it didn't use or something.

01:39:03 ◼   ► - It's very nice, right?

01:39:05 ◼   ► Like surprisingly nice for the Apple ID webpage.

01:39:09 ◼   ► I noticed those colors and I thought those rainbow colors,

01:39:12 ◼   ► they're really nice.

01:39:13 ◼   ► And so by looking at the source,

01:39:15 ◼   ► I realized that this is actually some fancy animation

01:39:17 ◼   ► that Apple is doing to impose this,

01:39:20 ◼   ► sort of superimpose these dots on top of the image.

01:39:24 ◼   ► The image is the wallpaper that I'm using.

01:39:27 ◼   ► - This is replaced that page

01:39:29 ◼   ► with the picture of the person, right?

01:39:32 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's newly redone.

01:39:34 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's way better looking than that annoying image,

01:39:37 ◼   ► which I would feel like we're all very familiar with

01:39:40 ◼   ► having to go to create like, what are they called? App specific passwords or something?

01:39:47 ◼   ► Yes, that's exactly how it happened. I needed to create an app specific password for Fantastical

01:39:54 ◼   ► and that's how I stole wallpaper from Apple.

01:39:57 ◼   ► I hate that system with a fiery passion.

01:40:00 ◼   ► Me too.

01:40:01 ◼   ► Because one, they make me do it. Two, I have to periodically clean it out because, oh,

01:40:07 ◼   ► used them all. Why is there a limit to this? Like, it's very annoying to me, that whole system.

01:40:12 ◼   ► Man, I pulled this image, Federico, it's tiny! It's only like 756 pixels across.

01:40:19 ◼   ► Yeah, you can zoom it. Oh no, you know what I did? I used the Pixelmator Pro.

01:40:24 ◼   ► Yeah! Super resolution, baby! That's good!

01:40:30 ◼   ► And then I pinch to zoom and it's fine, it doesn't bother me.

01:40:33 ◼   ► - This is the iPad wallpaper of like a real power user

01:40:38 ◼   ► right here.